Just posting for a bit of advice as I can’t fathom my friends partner and his sporadic crack cocaine use.
I won’t go into too much specifics but to cut a long story short, for the last two years he has been doing crack cocaine.
Yet in that time he has still managed to hold down a job and be promoted whilst ‘dabbling’.
When my friend discovered this nearly a year ago, she put location tracking on, besides his work commute, he was almost entirely house bound and clean.
The problem is only when she relents and allows him to for example ‘go see his mother’ he will turn off location and do some crack cocaine.
This to me shows he doesn’t have an addiction in the sense that you’re required to get a hit, daily and repeatedly.
The NHS have offered counselling but it doesn’t seem to have made much difference as unlike the others there, he can go months without using.
My friend is at her wits end, she doesn’t want to leave due to them having a six year old and the obvious reason of love etc and generally his drug use has minimal impact atm on the household and the child.
I think this could be more a psychological addition but she believes he must have secretly been using which is unlikely as he works for a Government Department and they’ve sacked people for less (smell of alcohol etc).
Has anyone seen this type of behaviour/addiction before and if so, any suggestions.
She called me this evening to say he had a slip up after a 4 month dry spell. I can’t offer her anything besides my prayers a sympathetic ear. I’m a rubbish friend, I know!