Originally Posted by
sadandhopeless 
But I think he needs full blown rehab. He had a hard childhood growing up with an alcoholic father who basically ignored him his whole life when he was not beating on the poor kid. So many emtoions he has that he can't let go of. He needs to heal his heart to help heal his addicition and no amount of medication or antidepressents and therapy are going to do that. He needs to go to rehab.
What he needs is the sincere and deeply felt desire to beat his addiction to alcohol. Obviously he's not there yet. He may never be.. That is out of your control.
What is in your control is taking charge of your life and making it what you want it to be. All the extraneous stuff you mentioned are irrelevant as LTD said. What is important is what do YOU want from your one and only life. If what you have right now is not it, you can take the steps necessary to change what you want to change.