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Question by Rani C: My brother needs substance abuse treatment/help?
My brother has been using crystal math for the past 7 1/2 years from my knowledge. How do we help him get help. And some kind of program that will make him stay not volunteer but make him stay to complete the program. I live in San Jose, California. He needs help or hes going to end up dead. Please any advice will help. We’ve called the police many times but they don’t do anything because he doesn’t harm anyone but himself.

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Answer by crecentroll
You could petition the court the force him to stay in a treatment center. I don’t know for sure if you can do this as I don’t have much knowledge here but I feel I herd that somewhere. Once clean though he needs to attend a recovery program, for life. Because when you are clean the addiction and temptation is still there and having a support group really helps, like Celebrate Recovery or NA

Answer by J
That’s a tough call, and at 7+ years he’s pretty well decided what he’s doing. Most people have to burn out to the point that they just can’t handle it anymore, or get sick of being sick all the time. It just got plain old to me.

Do you have much of a relationship at all, like is he in fairly regular contact with you? If he’s expressed desire to move on from it then that is a good sign. (obviously) If he’s denying he even has a problem then that is not such good news, usually meaning there’s more work to do on his end.

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