Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs - Health (3)

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by lady25(f): 1:39pm On Jul 14, 2025

lithiumnigeria:
There’s a life line. The fact that he still hide it from you is still a good thing. Atleast he knows what he’s doing is bad and already he’s trying to hide it. Draw him closer.
Try these things:
1. Get him a job:
Yes, he’s a smoker and a drunkard. Don’t worry, responsible job will make him better.
I recommend uniform job. I know may that are currently the breadwinners aim their family and are still smoking/taking drugs.
2. Get him Married to the love of his life.
This should come after job.

I beg u in the name of God ensure that he doesn't get married until he stops completely. DONT RUIN ANOTHER WOMAN'S LIFE

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by shoodboi2: 1:39pm On Jul 14, 2025

Thereedemer:
You are very wrong tho you started well
Ice can never allow you to have self awareness
Note : self awareness is different from staying woke and reasoning mindless things.

Only rock button can cause self awareness effect

I mean they have a high level of self awareness when they're not high. You can hold a reasonable conversation with you when not high. But once they get high, the awareness is over, until they become sober again.

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Gryffindor: 1:40pm On Jul 14, 2025

Just get him to a rehabilitation centre either a private establishment or that of the NDLEA ,that would be a good starting point, I've seen ppl get transformed after that experience

If not his as good as gone o!,cos there's only but one end awaiting,has to be said

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by phorget(m): 1:43pm On Jul 14, 2025

Leave him to walk his path, if he succeeds then you praise the Lord and if he perishes then he'll serve as example to the generation coming behind him.
If the mother has washed her hand off her own son then who art thou to keep worrying yourself on someone who doesn't worry about himself.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Gryffindor: 1:44pm On Jul 14, 2025

Mindlog:
He has not yet hit rock bottom, you can't do much for him.

Dragging him into a rehab now, will be a total waste of effort and money.

It's not jor,don't discourage such,it's their best bet

I'm in that sector

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Nobody: 1:53pm On Jul 14, 2025

ICE is hell.

My neighbor got introduced to ICE by a coded dealer who moved into the neighborhood then, a very nice Bangladeshi who was always wanting me to share his meals and smoothies.

Few weeks later, I heard commotion in the night only to come out to see this guy stark unclad, when I asked him wtf was going on, he mistook the cellophane waste bag he was holding for a trouser and was trying to fit his leg in.

At a point, he tried to jump feom the 6th floor through the kitchen windows. I had to physically restrain him and used his bedsheets to tie his legs and arms before calling the caretaker and police.

Why am I regaling you with this story? Stay off drugs. Don't allow anyone ask you to try a little and see how it feels..you'll be hooked for live. STAY DRUG FREE

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Miramonica: 1:53pm On Jul 14, 2025

What you can do is prayer, do praying and fasting for him, but to tell me that you can talk him out of it, Na big lie.

No one can talk a smoker out of that habit than the smoker itself. The best you can do is continue telling the person the health hazard, maybe someday, the person can have a rethink and change.

But this your cousin gat many addiction to change from.

Only one person Mkpurumiri(ice), colos, loud, marijuana, ciga...nawa oo.

Me dey stick to my Canadian loud, any day I wan change I go change. Thank God I'm not addicted to it cos I can go days without taking it.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by alphaconde(m): 1:56pm On Jul 14, 2025

If u are in Delta I know a rehab

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Leep(op): 2:02pm On Jul 14, 2025

AMAUCHESKY:
You can't force stop it but is a gradual stuff...

When you Force it to stop, the individual will keep falling back to it but
When you follow it gradually, they will graduate out of it

Reach out to me via my mail.

Repent Jesus is coming soon for real

Sorry, what exactly am I reaching out to you for?
You can say it here.
Thanks

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Leep(op): 2:07pm On Jul 14, 2025

SonOfWords:
The solutions you seek are not on nairaland. You're just opening yourself and kin to public opprobrium and ridicule bringing this delicate matter here.

That's your own opinion

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by SonOfWords(m): 2:22pm On Jul 14, 2025

Leep:
That's your own opinion

Oh well, goodluck finding proper answers then!

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Offpoint1: 2:24pm On Jul 14, 2025

Nistfrank:
Addiction is 2nd nature, very hard to quit, very very hard, mine is sports betting but I have decided to quit although I have tried many times but failed, am a married man with kids but I sold my plasma tv for 50k use the money to play bet9ja and still lost the money, each time my kids put music on home theatre and look on the wall for the pictures I cry in my heart....u see I was thinking that gambling will make me win millions and give my family a better life but hell no it destroyed me more, am in so much debt now, whenever my phone rings fear catches me.....my brother u see bad addiction is very evil

Addiction is terrible... As of betting, it requires discipline. I play Sportybet and I made 20k daily, that's my target. I don't play footballs, only casino and twice per day.

Gambling will destroy you if you're not disciplined and know when to quit.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Babangidapikin: 2:42pm On Jul 14, 2025

If he's taking Colos he is lost already, he needs to get to a rehabilitation center, because his body is already use to the drugs and he is taking drugs to hide a pain that is always there and won't go away . Advice him to calm down, life is in stages . Everyone's finishing line is not the same even if we started the same time.

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Mindlog: 2:49pm On Jul 14, 2025

Gryffindor:
It's not jor,don't discourage such,it's their best bet

I'm in that sector

Dragging him to rehab, when it is not his choice?

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Slimplush: 2:59pm On Jul 14, 2025

moscow007:
Take him to a psychedelic experience.

His life will never be the same.

He will come out better than a non addict

I also have someone close by always on drug, been trying to help but not working, where is a psychedelic experience center

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by dequir: 3:00pm On Jul 14, 2025

Convince him to visit MFM Prayer City in Lagos. They have a very effective and free drug rehabilitation centre there that have helped a lot of drug addicts to overcome their addiction.

You will be glad you did.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Naijatrend(m): 3:54pm On Jul 14, 2025

Leep:
Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs By Leep

There drug rehabilitation centers. He needs to be willing to put his life together, then he checks into one... Within a year, he should be fine.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Tammy2705: 4:00pm On Jul 14, 2025

seen this same trait from a relative, i now understand what's going on with him, really you can't do much but pray, also talk with him and make him know how the dangers involved

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Gryffindor: 4:15pm On Jul 14, 2025

Mindlog:
Dragging him to rehab, when it is not his choice?

Most people who I've seen go to rehab never want to be there,I work there!

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by podium(m): 4:40pm On Jul 14, 2025

Only rehab.. coz of drugs, my only brother is running mad.. it months now I didn't even know where he is. Someone that was very brilliant and intelligent. He will have came back with first class from university of Uyo.. but he got himself into drugs..

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Jman06(m): 5:00pm On Jul 14, 2025

He has to acknowledge the harm he's doing to himself first and have a strong desire to quit before any help can work.

Some addicts can't quit on their own because of the pains associated with withdrawal effects and that fear of withdrawal symptoms also help to fuel the addiction. So, I'll suggest you call him to a meeting if you want to help and discuss the matter with him. Highlight the dangers and consequences of using those stuff to him. Make him understand that he's cutting short his life and that his death is very near if he fails to stop.

Once you have established that he has a genuine desire to quit, then you can go ahead and contact the nearest NDLEA office to help him with rehab and management of the withdrawal symptoms.

Addicts only change when they have had near-death encounters or when they have genuine desire to change.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Mindlog: 5:05pm On Jul 14, 2025

Gryffindor:
Most people who I've seen go to rehab never want to be there,I work there!

And what is their relapse rate?

I offer Psychotherapy to addicts.

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Meddymeddy: 7:01pm On Jul 14, 2025

Only if he decide to change then he will.
This drugs are substance that control the body and mind,taken over the years gives the drugs more control. The user have to put it in mind to stop which he knows is like a brutal battle one part most die for the other to strive

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Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Gryffindor: 7:28pm On Jul 14, 2025

Mindlog:
And what is their relapse rate?

I offer Psychotherapy to addicts.

Yes relapse happens in some cases,but there are success rates as well.
But given up on them shouldn't be an option

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Gryffindor: 7:29pm On Jul 14, 2025

Meddymeddy:
Only if he decide to change then he will.
This drugs are substance that control the body and mind,taken over the years gives the drugs more control. The user have to put it in mind to stop which he knows is like a brutal battle one part most die for the other to strive

Fair enough,but U can't give up on them,having them in rehab for a long time helps

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by FREEMADNESS: 7:51pm On Jul 14, 2025

It sadden my heart reading this... I was once an addict of many drugs u can imagine including heroin all I can say my sister is redemption won't be easy for ur cousin. It takes only God's grace and self determination from him. But I suggest you get in touch wit pastor Tony Rapu, u can Google search about him. Maybe with God mercies he might be saved. I have been free from hard drugs for 7 years and counting although I still smoke weed presently and nothing else as substitute for hard drugs which was adviced by a professional.
Anyways try Tony Rapu foundation on hard drugs he might be of help. Take care!

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by Mindlog: 8:41pm On Jul 14, 2025

Gryffindor:
Yes relapse happens in some cases,but there are success rates as well.
But given up on them shouldn't be an option

It is not about giving up on them but them wanting to truly redirect their lives. I have worked in rehab units of psychiatric facilities and first hand observed the revolving doors of chronic relapse, majorly by those who were forced into it.

The key point is, they need to buy in, for that rehab to mean something to them.

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by correctguy101(m): 8:41pm On Jul 14, 2025

CharlotteFlair:
Waawu!

Na so this ancestor be. I grew up in an environment where insults be like the norm. But I just develop one kind distaste for the thing. Now, I'm more gentle grin

Use am play grin

Re: Help! My Cousin Is Addicted To Hard Drugs by correctguy101(m): 8:42pm On Jul 14, 2025

haggai247:
You want to help him stop giving him money and feeding his addiction.

Anytime he calls invite him to come and eat.

💯

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