As well as the nature of the addiction. It is very commonplace to see what are referred to as “high-bottom drunks” get sober before shit gets too bleak. It is not a requirement to wait until you’ve lost jobs, relationships or dignity to decide that alcohol takes more from you than you’re willing to give it. Everyone gets to choose what their own rock bottom will be. For some it’s humiliating themselves in front of others or seeing a video of how cruel and shitty they are to people they love when they’re drunk and think they’re “joking.” It’s much more rare to find high-bottom addicts.
Then you have those like the addict Nicky Rackets: emotionally immature, utterly lacking humility, shameless and terminally unique (“Nobody can understand me and so nobody can help me! I know what I’m doing and do not have a problem!”).
All of Nick Rekieta’s rock bottoms have trap doors. One hundred percent of my money is on him continuing to crater until it kills him. For Nick simply does not have the humility required to even consider the possibility that he himself might be the piece of shit culprit of all his problems.