He overdosed several weeks later, and came very close to dying. He was still making five probation appointments a week throughout all this. But it's still a success, as far as I'm concerned. Yet he seriously looked at his drug-use and how it was affecting his life. And he did manage a period of abstinence, albeit short-lived.
People often take three or four attempts to address their drug-use and fail.
That can motivate them to try again, to look at what went wrong.