re: Anyone have a family member that threw their life away with drugs?

My younger brother.

He was a really smart, charismatic, funny and handsome guy. Had a really great job in retail management on the West Coast that had some great potential to move into a really well paying career.

Got into meth in his mid-20s and it broke his brain.

He’s now in his late 40s, looks like a skeleton with skin, has false teeth, hasn’t worked in 10 years and is addicted to benzodiazepines and I suspect he still uses coke and meth when he can scrape up the money - but mostly he just sleeps.

It’s profoundly sad because he was a great kid and I know he’s hurting. But the substances have a hold on him that he doesn’t want to break.

Drugs are bad.