My bipolar boyfriend’s ritalin addiction… will he continue to relapse?

Question by Firedragon: My bipolar boyfriend’s ritalin addiction… will he continue to relapse?
My bipolar boyfriend of almost 8months has been lying to me our entire relationship about snorting ritalin/concerta. He finally came out of denial and admitted to have been abusing it for the past year. He is in a crisis center to restabalize his bipolar meds and is getting rehab help as well. He says he wants to get better. I realize an addict will always be an addict.. it’s a day to day thing. Does he have hope to get better? He says he wants to have a future with me, but I tell him it’s me or the drug. The abuse just makes his bipolar worse and he has a history of drug abuse. I just worry that he will constantly relapse and just mirror his past. Or is it possible for him to actually break the cycle?

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