Bossman is not recovering from his addictions without a huge sudden lifestyle change externally thrust upon him. Recovering from cocaine and gambling addictions are hard enough at the best of times, but he has the following additional hurdles beyond that:
- He has no friendship group or emotional support system. His discord and kick channel are full of other gamblers who specifically engage with him in the context of his gambling. The only other people we know about in his life is his drug dealer, and his on again/off again girlfriend who was also active in his gambling discords and fucks around with his friends. His parents would presumably be supportive, but I doubt he's going to speak to them at 3am when he feels like smoking a huge rock of crack and gambling it all on slots
- He has no career prospects. The closest thing he has to a job is gambling on stream. He's unsuitable for anything other than a minimum wage job or an apprenticeship. Minimum wage jobs don't pay shit because they're cushy jobs, they pay shit because you're easily replaceable. There's no way in hell he can stomach pulling a double shift at KFC, or spending evenings cleaning the bathrooms of office buildings for less money than he got for his stake sponsorship back in the glory days.
- He has literally nothing else to fill his time. All he does at home is use drugs and gamble. He can barely play videogames. He has no transportation and he lives in the sticks. 24 hours is a long time to fill for a broke ex junkie with a burned out risk/reward system, and if he feels like relapsing, he doesn't even have to leave his bedroom.
He would need to address all three of these to have even a fighting chance of getting clean, although one generally leads to the others (e.g. get a low paying job, make some friends at work, start hanging out together regularly) I haven't heard Austin contemplate any of this however, and he usually bans people for sincerely suggesting any of them to him. What is distressing about Austin is-- as far as being an addict goes-- he has it super easy. If he came to his family and told them he wanted to do a four year electrician's apprenticeship and he was going to need financial support in the form of ongoing housing and assistance with transport during that time, they'd jump at the chance. He could even have a relapse or two during that period and as long as he remained functional (e.g. kept his job) he wouldn't even be set back that far. So few people have an indefinite no strings attached support system like that.