[quote=@Dervish]I'm sorry to hear that, but I think you're going about it the right way. Your friend does need help and you can't let his behaviour drag you down with him, so hopefully this is the wake up call he needs, and maybe being in custody will put him in the way of a councilor. I had a friend who was incredibly self-destructive with his alcoholism and nothing myself or my friends did to help stuck, I realized it was something he had to do on his own and I couldn't deal with his behaviour past the point it got to. Best of luck, man.
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He needs to stay away from alcohol until his depression, anxiety, and other issues are subverted; maybe stay away from it permanently. This is really bizarre to me because a few years ago alcohol didn’t affect him like this; like at all. But starting with two or three years ago, he just started a downward spiral that I only now can see. You can write things off as “jokes” or “drunken banter” for only so long before you see them as warning signs. I just hope that this eviction isn’t going to lead to him relapsing from his treatment and becoming suicidal.