My answer is NO (you 'never' remain with an addict/junkie/chemical substance abuser - unless you are her/his pusher - LMFAO)! Furthermore, being an addict/junkie/chemical substance abuser is NOT a DISEASE (you bail on the asshole - immediately) - LMFAO!Edited 10-Apr-23 06:28am

Difficult to answer for me as a parent of one. I cannot and will not leave. In fact that is the reason he is probably still here and doing much better nowadays, But it did nearly get to the stage where I was going to take the drug advisors advice. Which is always let them fall . As far as they can go . When you think they've hit rock bottom there is usually worse to come. You are still in the early stages of the whole affair if you are trying to look after them / save them from themselves, run them to the dr's office, make sure there is food ready for them etc. Dosage their alternate medications from the dr .. No! They are the one's and only they can do that. If they know where to get the drugs / alcohol then they know where to go to get the help also . Remember that part. But each case is as individual as the person is and I do believe that a consistent safe place for this person to be is important. You make it clear that you don't live that lifestyle and you won't tolerate these things being on your property or the person being affected by them while they are there. So if they want to stay they are clean while they are there. If not they stay elsewhere. But they have the knowledge that support and help is there always. Tough love . If you are being stolen from or physically abused then you have no choice . Out and make it clear !

If they are getting help maybe but its hard to trust an addict. I would support from a far unless you see some solid proof they are working on their addiction.

No one should judge; I had a friend, who found out he was terminally ill (cancer). After discussion about it, I told him, that I would move in to his home to care for him at 'the end', but only as, and if, he wished to die in his home. (ie he was in control of that, at least), Unfortunately, he also had a lifelong condition of high anxiety - for which he refused medication. His illness, as well as certain other happenings, only made his anxiety understandably worse. It eventually reached the point where I realized I could not keep my promise to him (to be his palliative carer), for his sake and for mine, and in the end, I actually had to cut off all communication with him; so I did not see him for his final 6 months of life. God got me through making that heartbreaking decision, the hardest I'd ever had to make, but I know for both of us, it was the right one. I do not regret doing what I did, but I do hate that I had to make such a choice. His mental issue/s, as well as a few other factors, made it impossible for me to give the kind of care that I knew he needed. But I know I had no choice but to do what I did. If you know the limits of your own ability to deal with the kind of stressors involved within the situation, that's a good place to start to figure out what you NEED to do, as opposed to what you may WANT to do. Because they are very often separate things. It's a lot like being in a plane as it is losing air - you have to take the first breaths of Oxygen from the mask, before you it on someone else's face: if they are unconscious, and you keel over, you're both done for. If you love someone, you do what you believe to be in their best interest. Sometimes that involves leaving them to their own devices.

Not if the addict harms you in any way

It is a choice you have to make yourself.

I don't judge people and expect the same. It's your choice no one else's.

Leave. It is called tough love.

We all have some sort of addiction. .drug and alcohol addiction changes ones personality....if they decide not to get help...it will hurt you ..

Your life your choice. I don't judge.

Each situation has to be looked at by the people in it. If like you it is toxic then yes best to get out. I personally do not think enabling them is any help. Sometimes they have to hit rock bottom and then hopefully they ask and get the help they need. Each addiction is different whether it be drugs, alcohol, gambling etc. however, if it is affecting you and your family you have to look at the situation from the outside and then make a decision as to what is best for you and your family. You can be a victim or a survivor of these peopleEdited 10-Apr-23 00:25am