My Brother's Drug Addiction is Tearing our Family Apart

Hello my name is A.J. I'm 21 years old and my brother has a drug problem. My brother's name is Ricky and he is 27 years old and his drug problem has progressed more and more and it is probably going to kill him if he does not get help soon.

It's also killing my mother and father ... they have tried to get him help for some time now and he just doesn't want to get better. His addiction is opiates, Pills, any type of pain killers that he can melt down in a spoon and shoot up. It really hurts to see him on all this stuff but I have to do something but I have no money to even start.

I just wish my mom could be happy again, it kills me to see her go through all this pain and agony. When she hurts, I hurt. I love my mother to no ends - it just keeps going and going all the time with the love I have for my mom. My brother is tearing us "My Family" apart with his addiction.

I just want my mom to be happy and my brother to get help and get better. I see what my uncle did to my grandmother, he pretty much killed her, she passed in 2001 from a massive heart attack. I just don't want my mother to be pushed to that limit.

Like I have said I love my mother very much, and my brother's drug problem is killing my mother. If someone could give me some advice on what I should or could do about this please feel free to e-mail me at ajbriggs@yahoo.com. Thank You