1 of my childhood friends is a heroin addict, since his early teens, and throughout our later years I tried to help this dude, I tried to get counsellors for him, but at the end of the day you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink, in the end you could say I gave up trying, but if the addict inside won’t let the soul get help, then you have to think of your own mental well being and walk away, probably what happened with X in terms of people “giving up”
Being a celebrity and an addict is a whole different thing tho, especially being in the music biz like X was, it’s hard to find people that genuinely care when you famous, besides your day ones but then money can change them too .. everybody will always want a piece of that pie