Originally Posted by
coffeedrinker 
yes, true he is not maturing. that's what "they" say, anyway. if he started using when he was 16, he probably behaves in much the same way as a 16-year-old.
...yes...and this is they cope with their emotions by using drugs instead of learning "normal" ways of coping, so that they grow up never knowing how to manage the ups and downs of life, or how to make mature decisions, because they never learned the 'hard way' like the rest of us. Make sense? In other words, their emotional maturity gets stumped at the age they started using drugs regularly.