So...it seems like you've had some experience with addiction in some sort or the other by reading some of this stuff? I have a second cousin who is my age and a close friend to me who has been an addict for over 10 years now! It is saddening and sometimes I think it is pathetic but then I've never been in those shoes. My cousing has been in and out of every local and unlocal rehab that you can think of...and still goes back to the old tracks. So many people have tried to personally help but just got abused in someway or the other by disrespect, stealing from, lied too, you know the typical things addicts do to deceive someone so they can go do their thing. I think my cousin has tried priest, and other religious forms of help, still nothing...my family and I have tried helping in the past and had things stolen from us, we didn't really want to help out anymore, but then I think those things are replaceable we have given up to some extent or the other and say that my cousin in an adult and knows what he/she is doing...but lately its been eating at me-maybe addicts don't know what their doing really?

I see comercials on tv that talk about people with mental illness and how they need a friend, which at some point I think my cousin was diagnosed either as a schizophrenic or something close to it. I don't really want to give up-and my cousin here's it from so many relatives that we still have hope yet no one steps up to the plate to show it...so I would like to help whether we have to sacrafice some personal belongings (who care's, it replaceable right), or put up with the other stuff that addicts do. Do you have any insight on this?