How do you do an intervention if you've never seen the person use the drug?

Thats so sad, do you even know what he's been using.

You need to get him to do a drug test if you want to know what it is.

Covertly someone could go into the bathroom right after he pees and if he didnt flush you could probably take a spoon and spoon some into a multiassay drug test, that will test for coke, crack, and methadone, heroin ,pills, all sorts of things.

IT would be very sneaky and may not work and would be hard to do and sounds stupid but hey i dunno you need to find out what drugs he uses.

Maybe the person he loves the most should ask him to do the drug test. You can buy them online, buy a high quality one that does most drugs, especially crack and methamphetamine and types of opiates heroin, and speeds of all types.

If he's not super irrational you can all just ask him lovingly to do the drug test. And tell him you love him and want him back, and the drug test needs to be done so you guys know what ur fighting against....all drugs are really different monsters.

I know they are all very crappy answerrs, I'm sorry dear... :(

I wish i could tell you definitively what he uses.

Look, he's most likely abusing stimulants. That leaves you with pharmaceuticals, Adderall, and Dexedrine which are both amphetamines, or SPEED taken by mouth and sometimes snorted by addicts and injected but thats supr bad for you cuz of the plastics, binders in the pills. and microcapsules.

I'd say he's doing either CRACK/COCAINE or METH.........BUt the binge eating and then not eating for daays points to crank or Methamphetamine which is honestly the worst drug out there. Worse than Heroin in my opinion.

Also, if you have no proof really, do you have proof that he's ever had an addictive personality towards cigarettes and alcohol?

Could he just be so upset about the whole divorce and ******* up his life that he's damaging his body and not taking care of himself because he just doesnt care about himself anymore...

I mean DRUGS are the more likely culprit but...

Mental illness could cause these problems. Schizophrenia, bipolar mania, even Post traumatic stress disorder, and nervous breeakdowns.

But I'm just willing to bet, sadly he is smoking crack or meth or Ice......because the way you describe his life pattern.

The binges and all that sounds like crack or meth use...........I doubt it's heroin because people on heroin usually aren't "chipper" and talkative, they usually nodd off and are literally almost dead as they are high and nodding off, their breathing shuts down, if they take too much they just stop breathing quietly, out of the world so simply. sad. easy to make mistakes, I've made my own.

He may be using speed ball, which is heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine mixed which would make him chipper and talkative and acting very hyper but with heightened empathy etc.

Could you hire a private investigator? Maybe they could catch him in the act of buying or smoking something.

If you are well off as a family, you could probably get a private eye to folllow him and catch him meeting dealers and maybe even smoking meth/ice or crack/coke in public.

Even if you can't afford that.

You can be relatively CERTAIN he is using Meth, Crack/Coke whether smoked or injected, it's all as bad. And he may even be using heroin.

IT's blood obvious! Don't let him lie to you. Because what you described is a person on meth/crank/coke.

I know, I've used all of these drugs in the past as experimentation, and became addicted to the methamphetamine oral, smoked, injected. never crack, but i enjoyed smoking it occasionally,m justn ever had the addiction to it. I still use some pharmaceuticals now for legitimate medical conditions, responsibly.

SAVE HIM.....

DO ANYTHING YOU CAN TO GET THE RIGHT FFAMILY TOGETHER TO SAVE HIM AND IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE YOU KNOW HE"S DOING SOMETHING BAD TO HIMSELF>

DOESNT HE HAVE DRUG USING FRIENDS YOU COULD PAY FOR INFO, they will do it they lose all loyalty to their buddies while in this drug game.

If you can'tfind proof, just tell him you know anyways and want him to explain what he's doing to himself............Tell him you love him care for him more than anything. Maybe you'll be able to get through to him.

I'll pray for you tonight..i really will...

I DONT WANT BEST ANSWER cuz really this isn't the best answer it's all over the places and unorganized but I hope you get what i'm telling you and dont read right through it not understanding. I'm confusing yes but I understand that behavior.

SAVE YOUR BRO I hope something i wrote rings true''

If he is scared of withdrawal he could possibly find a doctor who would prescribe him oral amphetamines, which are much less damaging to him. but would give him that up, and stimulated feeling he anjoys, just not Methamphetamine. It would either be Amphetamine or Ritalin.

Ritalin is something that some doctors give to coke addicts because it hits the same receptors in the brain and they can use it to maintain without getting major sick in withdrawals.

But still the goal is to be off of drugs....maintanance on amphetamine or ritalin is an option but not a good one since he'd still be on drugs, just pharmaceuticals, and he could easily go back to that other life of smoking or injecting meth or heroin etc.

Methadone is a good substitute for heroin addicts.if he's on heroin he will not want to go through withdrawal, a methadone detox would be good......, or he could stay on methadone forever or as long as he wanted just so he could kill the cravings of wanting to get high on heroin. I take Methadone, it works, it's not super safe, it can kill you if you take too much, and takes 2 hours to start working once you swallow the pill, you can take some and 2 hours later say hmm i'm not feeling high, and take extra, and then you'll be double dosed and die! It's very dangerous,

THis battle is not easily one. ALl the options are painful and some of them are very risky,

Seek out good addiction treatment docs that he is comfortable with.

Buprenorphine is another good drug for people who are on heroin, it wont kill you in overdose, and if you inject it or snort it, yu will go into withdrawal since it has an added antidote for narcotic intoxication in it which is called naloxone! Buprenex is a good option for heroin.'

GOOD LUCK GOOD LUCK I"LL PRAY FOR YOU! PRay for me too. I have multiple sclerosis and a type of cancer nd a blood disorder. And i'm on lots of painkillers. IBLess you :) THANK YO

There is one thing that can be done to be sure that someone uses drugs: take a tests.

You would need to buy an urine test on 10 substances (or more if there are such tests).

It's easy to apply, just like a pregnancy test, so he needs to pee on it.

The question is how to make him take the test?

Well, someone he trusts most should talk to him about how worried he or she is about him and that it would be a great relieve to help him or her and just take the test, otherwise that person can't sleep of worry etc.

If your brother refuses taking test, there is almost a 100% chance that he uses some drugs.

If he agrees on it, some male family member needs to be in the bathroom with him otherwise he might mix his pee with water or something like that.

Normally these tests are rather accurate, but you need to pay attention whether he ate some cookies with papaver seed (the red flower used for making opioid drugs) or some painkillers with codeine. It will give a positive result to opiates.

My guess is that he is taking opioid drugs (if he's not ill from some mental illness) according to the symptoms you described, but I really hope that it's not the case.

Good luck!