Originally Posted by GDZHHR

That's the key, having a desire. I'm in recovery also. It doesn't matter what you force on someone, if they don't have an honest desire to stop using, they won't.

I've got over 5 years clean and am very active in a 12-step program and have seen this first hand in my life and in the lives of countless others. I have seen far too many die, who were "forced" to quit, but never had the desire to quit. Wasn't a surprise that they couldn't. They didn't want to. I struggled with this myself for over seven years in the program. Didn't really want to stop, I just wanted all the bad crap to stop happening.