What is the longest you have gone without talking to a sibling ?

This is a totally personal decision, and one best not made in the throes of Christmas nostalgia. My recommendation to you would be to go to a local Al-anon meeting or call their hotline. (That's the group established for people who love an addict.) There you can learn what you might expect if you find him, and how to prepare yourself. And how to contact a group near you. They can help you understand what enabling is and how to stop yourself from doing it, if you find him.

Truth is - every human is different but in many ways, every addict is the same. There are glimpses of the person (or maybe just the drug's impersonation of the person) but by and large you are talking to the addiction.

People tend to forget about siblings and their pain and loss.
And there is also your well-being to consider. Suppose you don't reach out and three Christmases from now learn it's too late?

Tough row to hoe, Alexasmile. I did not have this particular problem but estrangement from several family members for a couple of years. I re-connected for my mother's sake (and I suppose they accepted reconciliation for the same reason) and now both of them, and my mother, are gone. I will forever be glad I dodged that guilt bullet. In my circumstance, it stopped mattering who was right.

Very sad to hear. Is he still using?

1 year. My brother treated me badly when I visited him once. I live overseas and hadn’t seen him in over a year. He was so rude to me. Yelled at me for eating something without a plate, walking on his carpet with flip flops even I was chasing my baby around everywhere trying to keep him from the basement stairs. When I left I told my mother I was never going back.
He did say sorry a year later, but only because my mother told him to make things right or he would never see me again.

sorry to hear about your brother, I hope he got out of it, I know a few people that quit heroin by following a methadone program and never looked back, one of them just finished a bachelor degree in finance, got married and is expecting a child. there is always hope. I personally have not spoken to my sister in over 25 years but for very different reasons.

Oh years!! I try and reach out to the insane cunt every now and then, because its my stupid sympathetic nature, even though she's poison but never leads to anything.

5 years

My little sister is the only one I don't talk to on a regular basis. The longest I've gone without speaking to her is one year.

I've gone a year without seeing or talking to my bro. I think yesterday was another start to another few years.

2 years and for the same reason my son using heroin there’s not a day that I don’t think about him

I have never met 3 of my siblings. The one I was raised with.... it's been several years since we've talked.

Only a few months....I have 7 siblings and talk to them all, but my brother is in another State and sometimes i don’t talk to him for a while.

20 years, 30? We can't stand each other.

You should yes, he's still a part of your family and your life. I'd still want to keep in touch if it was my son.

1 year, brother and now dad

About 24 years now. Know not where he is.

8 years

Over 20 years and counting.

It's been about 28 years.

Do you know where he is at?

Not long at all

Couple of years

3 years.

That sucks, I hope you do; I can’t go on without talking to my little brother lol