drugs and alcohol abuse

Been sober for 8 years. When I asked the only person in recovery I knew "What should I do?" He told me something that made no sense at the time. He said "I don't know what to advise you, but whatever you do....You need to do it for yourself" I know now that he meant I could not get sober for anybody else, and that eventually I would drink To, For, or At the reason I got sober.
He is going to have to find his own bottom before he will reach for help, and he see's it sobriety.....or jails, institutions, and death. I wish you luck, but I do not envy you