A lot of friends from my early years are now drug addicts. I watched them go from smart youth with bright future and good families to drugged deadbeats.

I was there with them the whole time and tried to turn their path toward something productive, but to no use. Eventually I had to let go of them and set out on my own.

I still think about them often and have ran into some or heard stories about others, they are all still stuck in the place where I left them.

Sometimes you just have to leave people behind and let them live how they want, it's their choice, not much you can do.

Let them hit rock bottom, do not help stop them from doing so. When they finally figure out where they are at, give em a hand.

You mean your girlfriend got into meth and you are having a hard time putting her stories together, and calling the cops every other weekend to have her arrested so you can get some rest and avoid physical alterations. I still love the person I knew she to be, but she no longer is the same and I had to have the courts remove her from the property.

There will always be a part of me that wants to help, but I must remind myself what I was put through, and that keeps me from helping in the future

Yes, cut them off as hard as it may be. No reason to torture yourself.

I cut them lose. I have the patience of saint. I will bend over backwards to help the people I love. But when someone puts everything I have earned my whole life, in jeopardy because they want to get high. It's time to walk away.

Just realize that short of abducting them and holding them in your own personal prison where you can completely control them, they WILL self destruct if they want to

I have a Meghan Markle clone (minus the attractive looks) for a sister. She has retreated into a hermit-like existence of pain, entirely of her own making, claiming victimhood for EVERYTHING. Yes, heavy drug use was a contributing factor. Her daughter is over 40 years old and still lives at home, probably a virgin. She has had decades of "professional help" which only enabled her narcissism. She is a lost cause.