friends, drugs, intervention

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I have this friend, we've been friends since high school so it's been 12 years. Over the last 6 or so years he has used drugs. Pretty much as far as I know all he is doing is smoking dope. He has been arrested and jailed a couple of times for selling and using and when he was in jail the firsttime I told him that I wouldn't accept his coolect calls if he got busted for drugs again. Well he got busted and and he still called me every week and I still accepted. I told him the second time too that this was his last chance at keeping out friendship because I want no part of someones life who is addicted to drugs. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some preaching do-gooder. I smoke pot and drink occasionaly, but that's the extent of it because i've experimented and done my fair share. But I left that in childhood and my friend, who is really a big teddy bear, can't seem to break away from using. He is on parole and supposed to be going to classes but I'm not sure that he's following all the guidlines that were put on him and I know that he has been smoking dope since he's been out. His parents are both users and he's lived with his grandparents his whole life. I have brought my concerns to their attention but it's almost as if they are too busy or maybe just fed up in their old age to keep going through the motions when nothing has seemed to work in the past. Well now my friend is about to be a father and the mother is also an addict. Against my convictions I have called my friend and tried to call him out on what he's doing, I've tried to lend my support, and I've also threatened no support ever again. Well it's been about 2 or 3 months now since we last saw each other and I have kind of given up on him and really almost forgot about him. But it worries me because his father, grandfather, and grandmother are all in bad shape and won't be with us much longer. I can't turn him into his parole officer because it's a 3rd strike if he get's convicted again and like I said he is just a big teddy bear. He has self-worth issues and is always depressed. What if anything can I do to bring him back to sobriety and keep him there?