Hiya, hope you are OK.
I’m 107 days clean I think now from cocaine. I decided join CA after vowing never to go.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than using cocaine to beat depression, because cocaine causes depression and I mean alot. It uses all your dopmine so you have nothing left then it’s a bad come down for weeks. And feeling depressed.but each to there own I guess.
Soo.. How much clean time does he have? Does he have a sponsor? Does he go to meetings each day?
Also does he drink, because drinking is a main trigger for cocaine. I’ve had to quit alcohol aswell. Most people in recovery quit both even though they are not an alcoholic.
I’m in the meetings now, and I’ve read so many true addiction recovery books, and podcast with addicts. And a lot of people have years of clean time. Some have 2, 5 10 even more.
But what I have seen and heard from people from the meetings and this is true from my own experience. We can’t think we are cured anytime, and just have 1 small glass of beer, say 5 month, even 3 year down the line. We are never OK and some people have and gone back to using for years.
We have to stick to this programme for ever, go to meetings, connect to addicts ect.. Don’t get me wrong some people might just get 2 years in then just leave CA, and be OK. But would the addict want to risk that?
The programe makes us stronger and able to say no to a drink ect.. And we just ring our sponsor if we are struggling.
So my answer is yes recovery is possible if you put the effort in and stay away from using friends, don’t drink, and work the programme each day. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask me anything