Long story short a very close friend of mine for 20+ years has been battling with drugs for some time now(meth it appears). He has refused to go to rehab but has had several instances over the last couple of years where he looked like he was getting better. The other day his mother swore a warrant out on him as he was saying he was hearing voices and he was taken to a "treatment" center against his will where it appears he will be kept until tuesday. He has made the statements that everyone is against him and when he gets out he will do drugs and if he dies, he dies. Now over the years I have been one of the few people that has stood by him and he felt comfortable talking to because A) I didn?t "preach" to him, and B) we have been through thick and thin with one another and he knows the skeletons in my closet as well. I spoke to his mother and she basically said she didn?t think he would survive this latest downturn. When she told me he wouldn?t speak to anyone I told her I was on my way to the treatment center that he would talk to me. When I arrived I convinced one of the guys working there to go tell him I was there and that I would like to speak with him. When he came back he told me that he didnt want to see me either. I tried everything from friendship, length of drive to get there, and the fact that this is do or die for him and none of it mattered, they simply wouldn?t let me see him without his consent. The orderly told me he has only been out of bed long enough to eat and then he goes right back to bed and will have contct with no one. I am posting this mostly to vent as I understand the need to want help before you can get it, but I guess I am also hoping to get lucky and someone who may have experience with this type of situation may have an idea that has not been tried. I have lost two former students/players in the past two years to drugs and it is heartbreaking knowing that I am about to lose one of my closest friends.
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