| Earlier this year a good friend's boyfriend snuck out of their apartment and he partied with his buddies in the usual way- coke. He was a coke vacuum, having done large amounts over a long time (years). This night he took a relatively small dose and immediately had his heart attack, dead and not yet 40. A heart can take only so much before it get wrecked, and that threshold is different for everyone. Too risky, at least to me, to play with that shit.
Sounds to me like your friend's problems are much deeper than this coke episode. Just because someone OD's once don't mean they'll never hit it again. This person needs comprehensive professional help, for mind and body. Soon. Watching someone we love grow cold on a slab is no time to realize how little it matters what the doctors think of drugs or if the person might get defensive or offended when we try to talk to them about it. Ultimately, though, it is their life and they have the power to wreck it if they choose, and sometimes loved ones just need to accept this sad fact and not let someone else's self-destruction trip take our lives down with them. It's a hard path to walk no matter what.
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The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort- Paulo Coelho |