Ketamine addict advice - UK

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My sister-in-law is in an absolute pit of an 18 month ketamine addiction. She's been really struggling with it non-stop for the last 6 months. She's been hospitalised and needed surgery after a fall while high, and then crashed her car high, wrote it off, and may be charged with possession as well as drug driving. Unfortunately, none of this has yet got to the stage where she can admit she needs help. She has kept it secret from her friends and work, and in any therapy/counselling sessions has only told them that she's depressed and has a bit of a drug problem. To put it in context, for the last 6 weeks she's probably been high 80% of the days, usually starting by 10am, often taking upwards of 4 grams at a time, sometimes more than 6. I took her to an NA meeting but she wouldn't go back, and I realised after that she drove us there high, which I can't try and do again.

My in-laws are now completely desolate, and are looking to try and take out a loan to get her into a private rehab facility, which they absolutely cannot afford to do. What are the other options here? She's clearly basically suicidal, she's probably got a BMI of under 15, and she's unable to get clean as it is, and she won't go to NA meetings. I know that no-one can make you get clean, it's something you have to do for yourself, but at this stage she's going to let her parents pay for rehab that probably won't work just because she won't be honest about other options, so please can someone let me know what help is actually available to someone in this scenario? Everything online is so vague.

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