Originally Posted by
Seahunt 
It just tough with the not enabling a drug addict while trying to help with the honest illness (bi-polar). They are so intertwined it's hard to seperate them.
Was he diagnosed before the addiction?
At one point my 21 year old daughter was diagnosed bipolar but it was after the onset of addiction. She continually rejected the diagnosis and turns out she was right. All of her bipolar symptoms came from the opiates producing way too much dopamine in her brain. When she started to come down the symptoms disappeared. Her original underlying problem was not producing enough dopamine but the drug abuse stormed her brain with it.