Feeling stuck

[Djos]

I met a guy a couple months and each week I find out more things about him. I am attracted to his wit, super sense of humor, grammar, brains and the way he loves me. He has been an opiate (preferably morphine, though also heroin) IV drug user off/on for over 10 years and i recently found out he smokes crack every couple weeks. He shoplifts daily to eat (when he does eat) or out of plain boredom. He is pretty darn un motivated and sleeps way more then the average person. 3 years ago he jumped off a building in hopes to kill himself, but was unsuccessful and he was in a 3 month coma instead.
We have a very hot and cold relationship, and i dont know what i can believe when he talks anymore. Tomorrow (the day before his birthday) he gets back his Hep.C test, he had to repeat his first one for some reason...so he says!. This frightens me because i used his toothbrush once before. I myself am a nurse, so feel like i should know better then to get myself wrapped up in this drama. However, when i dont talk to him i either think he is dead or in an alley bugged out. I feel really stuck, and not sure if i should stay or try really hard to leave and never look back. I see and feel his heart and it saddens me that someone with so much potential has lost all hope in himself. He promised me the other day that he is going to go to an in house rehab center, though i myself am loosing hope in his progress. I am embarrassed to be seen with him, and dont have approval of him by any of my friends.
I am wondering what the likelihood of someone over coming opiates and crack? and what are the symptoms that he is still using. Any help or info. would be really beneficial.

Thanks!

[dominosarah]

Go back and reread what you have written....the answers are all there.

[nuredshuz]

my opinion.. run like the wind.. as you yourself already said.. you dont need all that drama... youve only known him for a few months.. why tie yourself up with someone who is physically, emotionally, and spiritually sick? you can be friends from a distance with very strong  boundaries.. but if I were you id keep walking and not look back..

[TrayCee]

you already know the answers to all these questions.

Good Luck!

[madtram]

Does he show any signs of wanting to quit this drug use, from what you have posted it seems a total life-style.  Regular crack smoking can lead to daily crack smoking, psychotic episodes & burning out your dopamine receptors to the point that you will never feel happy again without pharmaceutical assistance.

Even when you really want it, staying clean takes major energy & commitment, you know your friend but to me the signs are pointing in one direction & it isn't getting clean.

Sorry to be harsh but you did ask for opinions.

[Djos]

He often sweats...and says it is a side effect from his daily methadone, or that his body is needing the methadone. I dont know what to believe???

So confused