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

Yeah, a cousin who wasn’t going to amount to much anyway. Here are a few high (low?) points:

- started smoking, snorting, and drinking everything he could get his hands on in high school when his parents divorced

- in and out of jail and rehab, couldn’t hold a job, 3 kids by 2 baby mamas

- got arrested for passing out in his car in the Walmart parking lot high on drugs with all 3 kids in the backseat

- got “clean” for a couple months, then his mom got cancer so he relapsed

- went to rehab where they took the whole gang on an outdoor excursion…he promptly dove off a cliff into a lake, but missed the lake and smashed his face open on a rock and got rushed to the ER

- his mom spent her last months alive caring for him and his busted arse face before she finally succumbed to her cancer

He’s in his 40s now; last I heard he was washing dishes at a pizza place.