It worked. He was free of the physical addicition. We stayed around the clinic for a week and then headed back to the states where he immediately relapsed.
It is one thing to end the physical addiction, but if the psychological issues that led him to a life of drugs aren't addressed, then the rest is pointless. I don't doubt that a pill could be invented to end the physical craving, but it won't do a bit of good without therapy, a change of environment and an honest commitment on the party of the junkie.
I have a brother who recently relapsed. He's almost fifty, started out as an alcoholic, and now it's drugs. He says cocaine, but it might be meth. I've just come to the sad conclusion that even if I think he's clean, he may not be, he's lied so many times. He's rotten to the core. I had never really "given up on him" until now. He knows Christ, but he just throws everything away to be "tweeked." I even suspect he got loaded the day before my mother died of cancer. He's truly sick. Doesn't it just cripple you with pain sometimes?