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back in the day we were best of friends, he is a cool kid - really creative and a good musician but we went to differnt highschools and I don't see him as often as I used to but we're still in eachother's lives. he is more or less wasting his life away on soft drugs. he gets so messed up he isn't going to graduate highschool (and at a public school in my state you really have to work to get kicked out) he cares little for his future and recent rumor has it that he is shifting to harder drugs. anyone ever been here before? what can I do to help?

I'd turn him in.

I have an old friend wasting his life away, but it isn't drug related.

What can you do to help? Get him help. That might sound cliche to you, but really, you can't tell a person who's addicted to ANYTHING to just "stop." If they are in a rehab clinic with special doctors and programs, then him getting on the right path will be much higher. Just be ready to deal with the fact he probably will hate you for a while, but when he sees you've saved his life, will thank you(hopefully.) Do him that favor, before he does something really stupid.

If you conscious demands it, then try to help him.

But some truths can only be discovered through experience. If he refuses to learn then he will die, and there is nothing you can do about it. Sorry.

I suggest you set fire to your friends crotch.
Then run away to Mexico, and set fire to the crotches of all who appose you, and rise to become El Crotch Burner.




Yup.

I would turn him in, because druig rehab are expensive.

If you conscious demands it, then try to help him.

But some truths can only be discovered through experience. If he refuses to learn then he will die, and there is nothing you can do about it. Sorry.

That is really harsh; unfortunately its the truth.

I'd turn him in.

No man, don't do it that way. You don't want to lose him as a friend. Get him help, but don't turn him into the cops.

Abandon him, pinch his wallet on the way out, and never think of him again.
Life is too short to waste time trying to save other people, better to watch after yourself and insure that you don't become anyone else's burden.

I wouldn't believe rumours and just let your friend do his cups of coffee (you said "soft" drugs)

so unless he starts moving onto something very risky I say leave him alone

You can't save people from themselves. Leave it to the religious to try.

I suggest you set fire to your friends crotch.
Then run away to Mexico, and set fire to the crotches of all who appose you, and rise to become El Crotch Burner.

how would you burn all those crotches? a precision flamethrower?
or maybe . . . . .

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i've been there. i dropped out of uni cos of a mix of drugs and depression.

i've come back to live with my family.... but i guess if your friend is in highschool then he/she already is.
my advice would be that they'll see in time what they're doing to themselves as the rest of the world moves on around them, they'll realise the error of their ways and quit and move on themselves, maybe going back to highschool....

its a personal decision they have to make and its a matter of perspective and belief that their life is better with the drugs. i don't think there's much you can do apart from wait and hope they realise the truth sooner rather than later (and support them when they need it)

how would you burn all those crotches? a precision flamethrower?
or maybe . . . . .

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When you say burn, you don't necessarily need fire per say. Maybe a good powerful STD would do the trick.... Surely someone will say "It burns to pee" and you will feel just as good as if you really burned them with heat...