No doubt about it... but you can't force his decision, he needs to be helped to A: Realise

it is the right one & B: Be given help in the oppurtunity to succeed at it.

I have schizophrenia & possible Bi-Polar (the latter is undiognosed however) & from the

age of twelve I smoked pot until I became addicted heavily & took alot of acid & speed.

I became psychotic at eighteen & have struggled with it since. I was pretty much as

bad as one could be but I responded well to medication & yet still continued my drug

abuse until I was twenty four. I am now ninety five percent better than when I started

out but without stopping the drugs I would not have come even one tenth of the way

to better as I have... mental illness & drugs never mix but some are more vunerable to

it than other schizophrenics or mentally ill people... if it is extremely disturbing him then

he should know... he will become a new man without the drugs & feel more like himself

& far from being less of himself, he will feel more like himself. It is only the addiction to

the drugs that make him feel this is not so. Good luck... he's obviously a good man &

lucky that you care the way you do... be patient but don't let him forget or deny the

problem completely... open his mind up to the possibility & maybe he will wonder how

he would feel without the drugs... it will definately improve his situation. No easy task

though.

   Someone who's been there too.