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Suggest Treatment For Depression With Smoking Addiction

i have a close friend living with me and my partner and everyday he is getting more and more depressed and he has started to lock himself in his room and not sit with us in the evenings and has been drinking so much each week and if he isnt drinking he is smoking alot of pot im really worried becasue now we have addressed this with hima and told him that he needs to cut down and now he tell us hes not drinking but we have seen him hidding it in his room i looked underhis bed the other day and there are like 4 bottles of empty wine and 40 cans of empty beer he has also started to let go of his cleaning habbits he used to have a really clean and tidy room now there is ash all over the floor and smoks with the window shut so it smells really bad and there is sick on the floor as well and dirty cloths and just ash on everything im really worried for him and his safty is there anything i can do
Mon, 6 Apr 2015
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns

I went through your details. I can understand. Both, smoking and liquor consumption are bad for health and any person should be depressed and having low spirit if they are addicted. I am sure that your close friend is addicted to alcohol and pot / smoking. Treatment for this kind of addiction is de-addiction treatment. Craving for nicotine can be controlled by medicines as well as nicotine patches or lozenges. Pot addiction is concerning. Your friend need to consult a psychiatrist or de-addiction specialist immediately.

If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible.

Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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Suggest Treatment For Depression With Smoking Addiction

Dear Welcome to HCM We understand your concerns I went through your details. I can understand. Both, smoking and liquor consumption are bad for health and any person should be depressed and having low spirit if they are addicted. I am sure that your close friend is addicted to alcohol and pot / smoking. Treatment for this kind of addiction is de-addiction treatment. Craving for nicotine can be controlled by medicines as well as nicotine patches or lozenges. Pot addiction is concerning. Your friend need to consult a psychiatrist or de-addiction specialist immediately. If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible. Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications. Good luck.