Family member with drug problem ?

georgia, sometimes a person has to fall down to learn how to stand up. i bet if that support (your watching out for him) is pulled out from under him, he will fall, and may fall many times before he gets its. as children, sometimes we want to do something so much and get told no, no, no and so forth, till finally we are told yes, and of course our parents knew what would happen, but we had to learn it the hard way. sometimes complacency sets in with folks, and your brother is complacent knowing your gonna be there to watch out for him. if he won't/can't or doesn't want to break the habit of complacency, you and your family may need to break it for him and as the saying goes, "shake the tree and see what falls". it may take severe injury to wake him up, it may take an anonnimous call to the police and jail time to wake him up. i grew with "tough love" and alone so to speak ( only child and my dad worked nights and i went to school during the day) so a people person i am not, and growing up with tough love built an iron shell around my heart and little room for compassion, but a near death experience may be what it takes to wake him up to life.