100% agree. Going by the average addict, he will have a string of relapses, end up breaking his probation numerous times and serving weeks or months in county lockup, until his family has enough, or the Judge has enough. Giving him a year or more of real time / forcing him to sign himself as a ward of his wife/parents and booking him in for a full term rehab course as a inpatient. In five years Nick will be: A: Dead, B: In Prison, C: living a radically changed life thanks to an intense rehab program or D: A miserable addict alienated from his family.
The ridiculous nonsense of the past year has achieved less than nothing (as we said it would), This time last year, nick's parents should have sat him and kayla down and laid down the law "six months rehab or no trustfund payments".