How to deal with a crack head

[TaraJo]

I would have bailed so much earlier. How to deal with crackheads? You don't.

One can't help an addict. Only we can help ourselves. It sounds easy, right?

This.  Exactly.  You can help people if they really want to fix their lives, but if they have no intention of doing that, you can't force it.  Remember the old line about how you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink?  It applies and junkies like this are going to destroy your lives too, if you try to help them when they aren't willing to help themselves.

So far, I haven't found anything especially toxic in there.  Fumes were sucked into fabric of the clothes and blankets and pillows in there, but that's probably the worst in there.  Now that we threw a lot of that away, the room, while still incredibly smelly is much more tolerable.  We still gotta get enough money to get a carpet shampooer, find a way to clean the stink out of the walls (I've heard scrubbing with amonia can work) and probably put some kind of deodorizer like activated charcoal in there.  Then we pray; or we would, if we thought praying would accomplish anything.

She has a decent couch in there and I might want to try to salvage it.  Ordinarly, I wouldn't dream of keeping that couch, but before our cat died, she had an unfortunate habit of using the couch as her littler box on an almost daily basis.  So we have to choose between a couch that smells like cat pee or a couch that smells like crack.  Which one do you think would be easier to clean?