I read this a day late. I don't have advice to add beyond what others have given here. I did take an uncle one night to the hospital when I was young, and told him that he had to check himself in. We went home after a very long talk in the parking lot. He didn't get clean then, but he did sometime after that. I just had dinner with him last night. There has been a lot of pain in his life, and he is not on good terms with most of the family, but I love him, and we are family, and he is alive and we talk and laugh together. You are going to pick your path. It seems to be that's what it comes down to. I could see that my uncle was going to pick his, so I felt that the best I could do was to let him know that he mattered to me. Yes, this is the internet, but you are one of us in this small corner of it. We will be here, and we are glad when you are too.