Thanks Margot, yes when he’s thinking straight he realises that about the friends and avoids contact with them -but they are persistent, it sounds funny to say but it’s like a commission rate, if they get him back on to taking it the dealer cuts them a good deal, so they will try anything to lure him in to taking it again, and he calls them friends it’s so sad. .when he’s sober he even recognises this himself but once he’s on it again you can’t get any sense out of him, I sometimes wish we could just move away but it’s him that’s got to be stronger as the temptation could be anywhere. I think it wouldn’t hurt if the temptation was from people I hadn’t got to know and at one point liked, when I didn’t realise what was going on. Thanks for replying, it’s great to hear the difference it has obviously made to both of your lives. It just shows that even though it’s an incurable illness if you work hard to treat it you can live a better life but you can’t be naive about the constant threat from the addiction.
