Please help, my friend is a meth addict?

Question

he smokes it every godamned day...he wouldnt stop! he told me he would quit but he cant obviously! how do i have him quit it?

i tried it once long time ago...i think i oversmoked it so badly i thought my heart would jump outta my body...it was PAINFUL!!! i couldnt breathe...it hurt like h**l...i thought i was going to die...threw up everything i had inside of me and had scary runs...my vision turned so blurry i started hallucinating...

i know firsthand how nasty and awful it is...i will never do something like this to me...i got my whole life ahead...but my friend doesnt care...he is very irrational...help!

Answer 1

I just found this info I copied from a TV show years ago where a pastor addicted 30 years to crystal meth was able to stop.  i sent it to a relative with a son who had a 10 year drug habit but she told me he had finally quit in December and had had a good job for 6 months and just moved to an apartments,I am not sure yet how this miracle happned, but I still have the info on this site I sent her..this place  they said the normal rate of recovery is just 5% but this program had a 87% cure rate.

of course they have to want to quit..anyhow if you are interested their website is penielministries.org

http://www.penielministries.org/

sorry I do not know much more than that except that is is very successful

Answer 2

I am really sorry to hear this. I just watched a documentary on the meth problem in Alabama and the stats were frightening. Basically only 10 per cent of meth addicts ever are rehabbed. They simply cannot stop because the meth destroys the part of the brain that controls their impulse controls. They just don't have any control over anything any more. I don't think there is anything you can do to help him. He will have to make up his own mind that he wants to quit.

Don't get dragged into it yourself but stand by to help him if he does decide to go to rehab.

Answer 3

unfortunately, an intervention & rehabilitation, is most likely all that can pull him back out, but he has to be a willing participant, and thats hard.... he is no longer his own person, once youre addicted to meth it owns you. best of luck.  

Answer 4

nothing....=]

tehee!

Answer 5

show him these pictures

http://www.usdoj.gov/methawareness/image...

http://www.cityofwaynesboro.org/tues-met...

http://www.mappsd.org/meth-mites-3sf.jpg

and then tell him to get his a** to rehab.

meth tears you away from friends and family and so isn't worth the pain!

Meth users in rehab who's stories i found on google,

Ann......

Picking - she was in the bathroom, looking at the mirror, picking at her face. The face in her head said she needed to. Her own thoughts were "I should get out of here" so she turned to leave, thought she was leaving, and 30 seconds later found herself back in front of the mirror, picking.

The drug is an iron mask you carry around. You use it to hide from the real problem - what happened to you.

Her dad and uncle sexually molested her when she was a girl.

After a while, her brother said he had something that would help her forget the pain. Meth. She got hooked, then blackmailed her dad and uncle for money (threatening to tell someone what they were doing to her) to buy more meth to help her forget what they were still doing to her.

Married a man who cooked it. He forbid needles. So she would hide it by shooting up in her tear ducts or her cl*t. He would almost beat her to death if she used a needle.

She had lots of meth, because her husband cooked. She was going to sell a huge amount, but not all of the meth she had. So she took the money, and they came over for the meth, but she denied having the meth or the money, even after they pointed a gun at her head, because she was more afraid of running out of meth than she was of the gun.

Christie.....

Cleaned her house for twelve hours, to keep her hands busy. Started because boyfriend cooked and used.

Said one time they were tweaking in the car, looked out, and the trees were turning into snakes.

Got busted for not having a license plate on the front of her truck. Had three-quarters of a gram on her.

Mary........

17 years since her last straight Christmas - with kids and grandkids, couldn't remember the last Christmas she was straight. 4 or 5 years went by that she doesn't even know what happened.

She cooked it - she had her soldiers that went out and sold it for her. Even though she had kids in the house.

Over-amped.

4 days and 4 nights she was up, was getting tired, shot another half a gram, went out to the living room and strobed for 30 or 40 minutes (strobe - eyes darting back and forth rapidly)

Went through house, bumping on everything, walked out on porch, inhaled fresh air, and fell straight on her face.

She died 10 times during the night, and was revived each time. Her friends walked her around, trying to wake her up.

She remembers regaining consciousness several times, and the last time she came around, they were trying to blow another half a gram in her mouth. Her friends just thought she was tired, and needed some more meth.

Said she doesn't see her family any more. When they hold a gun to your head trying to get drugs, you don't talk to them anymore after that.

Answer 6

called 911 or police this is very serious 71% of meth addicts die by taking meth !!!!!

hurry to save your friend live he will thank you later!!!!

Answer 7

Send him to rehab.

Answer 8

Meth is a very serious drug and is extremely difficult to quit once addicted.  Obviously you know the ultimate outcome of this addiction.  If you want to help him, persuade him to enter rehab on his own... if you force him there is a greater chance of relapse later.  He needs to want to get clean before he can ever be clean.  Ultimately, it's his choice, but an intervention may help.  Search your local yellow pages for someone who specializes in interventions... they aren't too hard to find.  A professional will know exactly what to do and how to do it.

Answer 9

Dude you need to tell someone to get intervention. Every time he does it might be his last. If you care for him tell someone like his parents. If you need to get the cops involved because its better than him being dead. He might not like the fact you told but he'll realized you saved his life in the end.

Good luck man

Answer 10

Meth is probably the worst drug out there in my opinion. It is so enticing initially being rather like ecstacy but the results are far more tragic. Even though E is sucky too. People on drugs are not themselves especially meth. Your friend is not the person you once knew anymore. He will be unpredictable. Lucky that you had a bad first experience! Your friend is severely addicted and could end up doing something terrible. This drug WILL destroy his mind and his life if it hasn't already so you are right to seek help for him. You may feel that you have lost a friend for a while but if you truly care, annonymously call the police or get him in rehab. Im not sure what the laws are in your area. Be careful as he will skitz out at you if he knows you are the one taking away this 'void filler' in his life. Hope it all works out.

Answer 11

imo once someone has become addicted to this, and other hard drugs, there is nothing anyone can actually do. he'll likely reach a fork in the road and have a chance to decide on a lifetime of the h**l he is living or getting out of the lifestyle JUST in time...usually this kind of choice comes from being arrested and facing serious consequences for the actions they have chosen. sometimes it is hospitalization. for me it was taking a hit of my drug of choice and feeling like i would die. to this day i wonder whether i would have had a serious heart attack had i not taken a precautionary handful of aspirin immediately after exhaling.

unfortunately if he has already come to those cross roads and he is still engaging in this behavior, there may not be much hope.

bottom line is there is nothing you can do or say that will wake him up...its something that has to come from his own common sense or an event that affects him to a point of not being able to ignore the size of the problem. i hope the best for your friend. just do what you can to stand by when he needs you without enabling his drug use...he needs friends who care about him...but he needs to understand how you and other people who love him feel about the choice he has made.