A lot depends on the type of drugs your friend uses. Different drugs can alter metabolic pathways in very different ways. Some might be benefited by a practice of meditation, but to be honest, when you're just beginning to get yourself off of recreational pharmaceuticals, that's not the greatest time to begin a practice of meditation for the first time. The benefits of meditation are largely accumulative, so banking on getting a big boost from meditation when you're just learning how to do it is probably not very realistic.
It's always beneficial to obtain the assistance of professional help when breaking a chemical addiction, and I presume your friend has some sort of addiction with these drugs, correct? A trained professional would better be capable of helping your friend determine if taking up meditation right now would be helpful, or harmful. In some cases, going through certain types of withdrawals could conceivably be exacerbated by trying to launch into a practice such as meditation. Getting a professional assessment would be for the best, that way your friend avoids making potentially harmful mistakes.
Once the initial withdrawals are over and the detoxification process is well under way, meditation would certainly be something your friend would want to invest some time in. If your friend has had a serious addiction problem, leaving it behind will create something of a void in his life. He will want to fill that void by replacing those unwanted habits with healthy lifestyle habits, and meditation would be an excellent tool to help him do that.
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