As someone who lost an adult son to a drug overdose (after a long, painful, heart breaking journey), I can tell you that you can beg them to to go to rehab, you can take them to rehab, you can tell them to get their act together, etc.- but you cannot love them enough to make them right. Only they can do that, and until they are ready to take the lead to recovery, all you can do is love them and pray for them. Addiction is a horrible disease where rehab is only successful <70% of the time at best and overdose death leads to a life filled with grief, tears, a broken heart, as well as times of second guessing and anger (at your child, yourself- and even God)- I've experienced all of that in the last almost seven years.
So it is easy to have an opinion about something you may never have faced, it is easy to call an addict ugly names, it is easy to say all they have to do straighten up, it is easy to say we need to push them to a better life, etc.- but we have no control over that person's life until they reach out for help. I pray JFF finds his inner peace, finds Jesus (if he does not already know him) and finds his path to recovery for himself and nobody else- and a life filled with many blessings.
