Hard to say what kind of awesome person there is, underneath the destructive crippling decades of drug use. Now he has to deal with the same syndrome that Milo talked about, where normal levels of brain chemistry have been blown out by overstimulation from drugs. Life without dopamine is very very hard. At least he is not the one who felt it perfectly ok to purposely contrive a vicious hoax designed to destroy another human being, the way that the Amber creature tried to do.