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

Well, I was in my early 20's in the late 1960's, so I knew several who died from drugs. Didn't hang with the speed freaks or junkies, but some otherwise good young people died in various ways.

A guy I had played chess with several times did some heroin after drinking. I was told that he couldn't be revived and the people with him parked him in the hospital parking lot in his own car.

My daughter's half sister had migraines and her junkie boyfriend who was on methadone treatment gave her one of his pills. She wasn't a junkie and the dose killed her. My daughter found her with her 18 month old boy crawling on her body.