Friend in trouble

So this is so fucked up. My friend in my neighborhood is a good guy. But he smokes cigs, somkes weed, and drinks and does shrooms and acid and whatnot. So he keeps on getting drug tested by his rents and failing and they put him in this 12 hour a week intensive rehab thing. So he was failing all those tests too. So last monday, they woke him up at 4:30 in the morning, with no prior warning, and sent him off to a wilderness camp for 2 months. While hes gone, he will miss: his birthday, his dad's birthday, and christmas. That is so fucked up. So I found out later that day and decided to go smoke for him. So I get back and I'm high and his 8 year old little bro calls me and hes crying. And I go over there cause he's all alone in his house, and he's crying and he hugged me and I was high and shit and I started crying outside in like 30 degree temperatures at night. It was some of the saddest shit I've ever seen.

 

if thats what it takes his parents were right to do it

 

I know he needs help to stop smoking cigs and to cut down his drinking, but its still sad

 

if you've never had an eight year old crying in your arms in the middle of night outside in the freezing cold, because hes confused why his brother disappeared, then you don't know how sad it was that night.

 

i've had friends die in car accidents and from other things, i think those situations were a little more sad then some kids loser brother going to rehab because of his habits, the kid is 8 what could he possibly understand about the situation

 

The 8 year old's sorrow pales in comparison to the sad situation his brother is in, i.e. failing multiple drug tests in rehab, etc. Sometimes drastic measures need to be taken to help people.

 

sounds sad, but i understand why his parents did it. they were worried about him, and in the end they just want the best for him..
still, i would fucking hate that to happen to me..

 

Two months is a short period of time. Its prob more about self-controll than any specific vice.

 

Yeah his mom showed me a picture of him the first day. He wasnt crying or anything he just looked like it sucked and he had accepted it. Thats why I dont feel that bad for him cause he can make up the school easily because he's on block schedule. I feel bad for his bro though cause he looked up to his older brother and now hes confused and doesnt know what to think about him. It'll all be better. The worst thing that could happen is that he could come back and be a total anti-drug dick, and trust me, that will definately not happen.

 

stupid parents. but atleast he could TRY to fake the drug tests... i think THATS what his parents are trying to teach him.

 

did they send him to "the woods"? i know a few dudes that are out in "the woods" in north carolina.

 

I dont know man its by asheville in the mountains. haha hes probably about ten miles away from a ton of people smoking

 

haha is it like a place where they have to work all day and survive on their own pretty much?

 

I think so, they go hiking and shit. his mom has no idea that I smoke so she showed me all of the program stuff. They're food sucks when they have to go out camping, just a bunch of frozen shit

 

How old is this guy?

 

hes 15, turning 16 while in the wilderness camp