New member, family member is a mess

[Beantownkid38]

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Hey all, I'm 17 years old and from a fairly large family (5 kids) and I am the youngest. My two sisters and oldest brother have a different father (who was a heroin addict) and my second oldest brother shares the same father as me.

Anyways, my oldest Brother, now 27 and just had a child, has been using heroin since he was 17 years old ... which means 10 years of using, and also a big fan of pills. My entire family thought with a girlfriend and a child of his own he'd clean up, but it seems like he just made his addiction more blatant and careless. It's to the point where my family and myself love him, but don't like him.

The town we lived in had 53 heroin OD's in 2009 ... we took our brother out in the woods where we lived now. Almost all of his "friends" have died from heroin related incidents and his father who left him was, as I said, an addict himself.

He's had a good relationship with my own father, I mean I'm sure not having a relationship with your biological father is still a drag. But you'd think having a kid, he'd strive to be the exact opposite.

He suffered a big blow when he turned 5 in Disney, found out he had juvenile diabetes (needles, I think what got him into that whole crowd in the first place) and has been using drugs in general, since he was 12-14 ... needless to say, he's incredibly lucky he hasn't had a deadly OD. He's been to almost every halfway house in our area, in and out of numerous prisons, he lived in the Boston Commons for a few months ... I'm just dumbfounded, is heroin that "feel good"? And yes I know, it's one of the worst physical addictions that exists.

My parents and sisters have been trying 10 years to help him ... he just can't admit he has a problem, and he has this huge false ego surrounding him.

So I'm wondering, what can we do to help him? It seems like everything has been done, and it also seems like he wants to die ... I'm really just at a loss of thoughts on what to do. Someone help us, please.