Dr. Mark Abrahams

The Life of Your Friend May Require the Sacrifice of Your Friendship

I am 17 and my friend is 21. We are in the same summer class. She is doing a lot of meth and now she is selling it. She used to be pretty normal but now she is hard to understand when she talks to you. She stays awake for 3 or 4 days in a row and then sleeps for 24 hours. She supports herself by selling. She just had to sell her laptop to get new ‘product’ to sell. She says the money is so good but she keeps having to sell her belongings so obviously there is a flaw in the economics of it all. She is so skinny and she looks terrible. Oh, and her mom is one of her customers – so that is weird too. Everyone knows she is using and selling so I don’t think she is going to get away with this for long. I want to help her but she doesn’t seem to even understand what I am saying to her so what can I do? She comes to school every day but she is going to completely fail and I don’t think she is coming back next semester. My friends and I want to help her before she is gone for good but we don’t know how to start..