My friend/boyfriend I’ve known for many years is one of the most amazing sweet people I’ve ever met and it kills me that the past few years hes been addicted to pain pills.
He has a friend that constantly supplies his addiction and makes it incredibly easy for him to keep getting them for nearly nothing. On top of that he’s bipolar and HAS to take medicine just to live “normally” but I already care for him too much to walk away.
Everyone else in his family has pretty much given up and they don’t know what to do, and I don’t know what to do. He’s not working and doesn’t have a car and yes sometimes I feel crazy for even considering being with him but something just keeps telling me maybe if I take the right steps to help him he will get help.
He and I have had so many long talks and we are so right for each other and he even has cried to me about his problems and the way he feels and how he feels lost. (The house he lives in is REALLY bad off, I won’t even get into that)
He knows he has a problem but some days he says everything’s fine and I’m so worried about him ;( Please anyone who has been addicted to pills or knows someone who recovered, how should I talk to him and maybe convince him to go to counceling or a meeting without freaking him out? I know he has to be the one to do it, but I want to make sure I say the right things and take the right steps so I help him see that he doesn’t have to live this way. On top of that I want to be able to at least reccomend affordable places he can go for counceling or meetings so any advice on the best places to go would mean a lot to me. Please help me ;(

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