My seventeen year old brother is currently in court ordered rehab for addiction to marijuana. He is an exceptionally bright young man, but his choices are leading him down a path that we aren’t sure we can pull him off of. Our parents are naturally worried and upset at his choices, but they want to help him. I am nearly 21 years old and have never gone down this road personally, but I have watched the destructive behaviors that the addiction can lead toward. He has also gotten into cutting (some of the cuts are so deep they require stitches).

He has shoplifted, skipped school on a routine basis (in the spring semester alone he missed 70 days and has lost all of his high school credits), and has run away from home.

He has been diagnosed several years ago with ADHD and is on Adderall. Unlike most people who smoke marijuana my brother doesn’t mellow out, instead he hypes up and bounces off the walls. Naturally we assume that this is because of the ADHD. He has also been recently diagnosed with severe addictive personality disorder.

What can we do as a family to help him stay sober? I don’t want to lose my brother and I am afraid that later down the road he is going to get into stronger and much more dangerous substances that will kill him. I want to help him, but I don’t know how and some of my ideas are a little extreme (one of them being I think he should spend some time in jail).
We know that he is only smoking marijuana because he has to submit to a drug test weekly in order for his script for his Adderall to be filled for the following week.