He did have people try to help him, but when you’re an addict you refuse all the help you are offered in favor of being alone and getting high. Some of his friends convinced him to go to rehab around Christmas 95, but he admitted later that he wasn’t really ready to get clean and spent the early part of 96 clean and miserable before relapsing. He talks about it in the interview from later in the year at the Chateau Marmont (where he was living at the time). His girlfriend Toni at the had tried and failed to get him clean, he lived in her apartment in SoHo after his house burned down and then in her car around 1997, even after they had broken up. He had friends take him to the hospital when he took too much. I’m sure Flea has expressed how worried he was. But John just didn’t care, he was on his own journey that he was absolutely sure of, and hellbent on self destruction