abuse past, obviously you can t eliminate all of your friends and the environment, but how important is it for someone who s struggling to try to avoid these places and influences? i have this idea that if i go to a barbershop day in and day out, i m likely going to get a haircut. and likewise, if you put yourself around people, places and things that are triggers for you, or if there are drugs on the table right here, i would be triggered in ways that i wouldn t. you know, i think it s just an awful headline. and it goes against the notion that many families get stopped by it s the idea that somebody has to hit bottom. and i think if we interrupt and help someone get treatment, that s their bottom. we help them establish their bottom. the bottom is when you quit digging and accept help. we know that his father was a recovering heroin addict. he lost his mother at a very young age.