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

Dude, she was snorting and shooting Adderall pretty much all day every day and would be awake for several days at a time

she literally just lost her fricking mind over the years and is paranoid all the time now,

she is so emaciated and malnourished ….a strong gust of wind could blow her over

Niece (sisters daughter) gorgeous girl who could have done anything.

Grandmother, mom/dad, uncle all college graduates and she had the path laid out to be successful.

Now living with her shitty husband, they have four kids no jobs and both addicted to Opioids/Fentanyl Pills.

Both have been arrested for stealing from Walmart at least once in the past six months, she had two kids with her when she was caught.

Electric, phones, mortgage, vehicles - My sister and her husband are paying all this $45,000 in 2023. They pay this because if they don't all six of them will be living at their house.

It's a damned shame and pisses me off

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Downhill with adderall only?

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It is amphetamine. You think people can't or haven't ruined their lives over it?

My older sister. Back when she was in high school, our phone rang non stop with boys calling our house. She was on the homecoming court, had plans on going to college, etc. Her and I had a great relationship and we always talked about everything.

She got married to her high school sweetheart when she was 18, left him for a drug head the very next year and it's been a whirlwind for the past 30 years. In and out of rehab, lost everything she had.

She currently looks about 65 and has no teeth. I don't even know where she lives or if she even has a job.

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It’s not nitrous. That doesn’t do that.

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The concern for neurotoxicity and repeated NO use has been known for years.

I have two cousins who lost their sons. One on each side of my family.

Didnt know either of them personally.

My family has a rich and storied history of destroying themselves with alcohol and tobacco. We are Scotch-Irish from Appalachia so we are not alone. The only reason it is more acceptable is because it is so widespread and it takes longer to accomplish than meth or crack or heroine. The end result of smoking a pack a day for 30 years is more often identical to that of a heroine addict but the latter winds up dead in just a year or so.

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Smoked crack in a blunt with a friend once shortly after I graduated highschool. Had been drinking and really just wanted the weed.

The best 5min high of my life. Immediately wanted more and told him to start driving to the ATM for more cash and to call his dealer.

Dealer didn’t answer. I thank God often for that night…there was a high chance I was about to throw my life away.

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I had a similar experience...painted a warehouse for a man once who paid me with 5 pounds of rag weed. I was 17 at the time so 5 pounds of rag weed amongst my customer base was worth way more than what he'd have paid me in cash. When I went to Virginia Highlands to get paid he and his wife were smoking opium. They asked if I wanted to try it and I, of course, said yes. After 2 hits the euphoria I experienced for about an hour was about on par with post orgasm euphoria. When I was normal again I did not want anymore of that shite...it was WAY to easy to get there...it scared the hell out of me. Not only did opium scare me it opened my eyes to the problems of ALL addiction, alcohol, tobacco, sex, gambling, food....coming from a long line of addicts of any and all things addictive that experience probably saved me from following the family tradition.

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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.

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I liken it to an evil little monkey that rides your back and whispers that you are powerless.

And he cracks his whip and his shadow is cast so so damn big. It makes you feel powerless, chasing the fleeting highs, those momentary escapes from the pain, the shame, the sorrow.

Addiction, of any sort. Can make you a slave. Allow you to make any justification for your behavior. Because that goddamn monkey is in control of your soul, at least it feels like.

He's riding you into oblivion and he's a motherfricker to shake off. He'll scream how you are nothing without him, how you need him, how no one cares about you. Every lie he can think of.

You need help to do it, but you can get that monkey off your back. Gotta want it bad enough and be willing to surrender to something other than the monkey though.

If he's at a rehab facility and still coming off a long Nitrous binge, (and likely on Seroquel or other drugs) it wouldn't surprise me if he seemed out of it after only 10 days.


If it was just nitrous this guys brother was on, and he can stay off that shite, and stay sober...I think in a number of months he'll seem a lot better.