It also helps sometimes to see others that you love in an addiction.(when you are also being stupid yourself).
You look at them and say, "Wow, is that ME? Is THAT what i have become?"... And when you see how LOW your loved ones have stooped for that drug.. how degraded they have become, the things they will do... the lies, the deciet.
And it also helps when your loved ones almost die (get shot) because of dealing with low lifes. NOTHING brings home how bad things are until you almost lose a loved one to that life. It makes you open your eyes REAL quick and grow up and decide that you ARENT going to live that life. Theres NOTHING in the world like seeing a mother(MY MOTHER) sitting on the floor of a car (because she couldnt even hold herself up in a seat), sobbing her heart out with pain like i've never seen in my life, when she thought her child was dead.
Again.... its all about whats REALLY important to you in life. IMO