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First, you have to look at a few factors...
First off, which drug are we talking about? Opiate addiction has a much lower recovery rate than say...cocaine addiction.
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Crack
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Second, what method are they using to ingest the drugs? Intravenous drug use is much harder to stop than say...snorting something.
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Smoking
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Third, how long have they been using the drug and at what age did regular use begin? People that start abusing a drug in their teenage years have a much harder time quitting than someone that started later in life.
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This time around it's been since November of last year, but it's been one thing or another for the past 12 years. This is just the newest phase, but this is the first time it's ever become a real problem. Since the beginning of this year, the two of them have burned through over $45k on the drug and have had to borrow and mooch money from everybody they can just to keep their house and car and food in their kids' bellies.
Less than a year on this particular drug doesn't seem like a very long time, but when they've already reached the stage where their young kids are running around fending for themselves all weekend while the parents are crashed out, or when their friends come over and leave the shit on the kitchen counter for the kids to find... it's far past the point that they need to get some help. And this is the same person who, up until a couple of years ago, I had as my role model for parenting. This is NOT them and they've turned into completely different people than they were even a year ago.