Mmm, I feel for ya. My brother was a coke head for several years, almost wrecked his life. He worked at a nuclear power plant x-raying the welds. He made freaking *great* money, like $120k/year...and that was in the 80s! But to make that much money, he was working 100-130 hours a week, and the only way he could work that much is if he was coked up. So to afford the coke, he had to work huge hours, and then he'd spend the money on coke so he could work *more* huge hours.

It was like a vicious cycle that he was trapped in. He couldn't give up the fat paychecks, but collecting the fat paychecks meant spending tons on coke, which ate up the fat paychecks. Making all that money, he drove a beater, and his furniture was rented, and he was broke.

He got in over his head, to the tune of more than $50k that he owed to his coke dealer. They showed up one night and broke one of his legs. And the next day he left the state and moved across the country, got a lower paying job, and finally got off coke. But jeez, it was almost the end of him. He must have spent a quarter of a million dollars on coke, and had nothing to show for it except an addiction and a broken leg.

I hope your sister does better than that! At least she's getting some kind of treatment, and she's not been hooked for years so it might not be quite so rough breaking the cycle of addiction for her. My thoughts are with you and her, bro!