Addiction & Recovery

You nor anyone else can do much for this person if they are unwilling to admit to a problem and become willing to accept help, he/she has to decide that they need the help and become willing to take any and all necessary steps. The attitude you infer from this person is normal denial. Have you tried and intervention? You need help to help you to understand a very complex situation. Go to meetings for yourself not for the addict, the addict has to accept the fact that he/she needs help before he/she will take necessary action. I am assuming that they deny they have a problem and are unwilling to attend any type of meeting. Go to meetings your self, talk to people there ask if anyone is willing to help with staging an intervention. As long as you and others continue to assist this person you are enabling them to continue, it is hard to make the moves but it is needed, it is referred to as the old cliche "Tough Love". Please continue to post here as to any progress you make, there are a lot of people here who are smarter than I am on this and I would like to see what they may see in this situation.