or the damage has already been done
Drugs cause most harm where they create negative behaviour and habits. It doesn't matter to some extent that he is free physically from the drug, he is likely to struggle from the after effects for years hence the AA approach is to accept the dependency is always going to be there but he rejects that unfortunately
I have known someone who said he just stopped taking cocaine one day and that was it, no withdrawal. Physically it causes heart damage and Im pretty sure shortens life expectancy quite drastically even after you've stopped
I dont think he is crazy, just over confident and eventually it'll hit him whats been lost. Maybe he'll handle it but I dont think it'll be half as easy as he makes out.
Would love if he surprised everyone and had the endurance needed to recover fully
Thats an attempt to make sense of the world easily.
Life is stress and drugs make it easy, its nasty coming off them and having to deal with all that crap again.
Hence sticking a label on everything and everyone, be over aggressive and you have your drug replacement to some extent I guess.
Doesnt really work, the brain learns natural ways of rewarding behaviour what makes you feel good or not and drugs just wiped half that chalkboard clean.
He left with nothing without drugs so has to rewrite everything, that'd knock anyone sideways hence the strained and overzealous extrovert extreme behaviour. In a way he is a real fighter to be fair
