I just watched most of the TMZ interview from today and as someone whose dad died of a drug overdose, I can honestly say that if he doesn't get SERIOUS help now, he's going to die. I can tell just by looking at him exactly what drugs he's doing right now. When you've watched someone close to you do these things, it becomes easy to tell a cocaine high from a pill high, etc. We didn't have the money or resources to do for my dad what needed to be done. Top that off with the fact that my dad was a "man is the king of his castle" kind of guy so NO ONE was going to tell him what to do, ever.
I was already an adult and married when it happened to my dad, not that it makes it any easier. Along with the fact that my dad was dead, the worst thing was that we couldn't just mourn for him; we were pissed about the things he'd done before he OD'd, I was pissed at the mess he left my mom with, also embarrassed about people finding out what had happened.
The way Charlie Sheen is acting on that interview from today is almost EXACTLY how I remember my dad from not too long before he OD'd; so close, in fact, that it creeped me out enough to call my mom. She told me, "I thought the same thing when I saw it. I'm afraid it's almost too late for him".
He's a grown man who should know better but from the things I've learned, once the drugs get in there like that, it's the only thing that matters anymore...looking for that next high. It truly is a disease that has to be treated.
