keggerz Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 with drugs etc.... want some stories for my nephew to read....i will edit this line out prior to him reading it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 friend of mine had the mets interested in him 86. he decided to go to college (a JC)... got involved with coke.... that was it. blew his shot. 2 others weren't quite the same after some weird trips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Trick Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Uh, myself. I won't go into details cause I am embarassed about it, but they screwed up me getting a full ride for soccer. I regret it to this day. My life motto is everything happens for a reason and thus I straightened myself out, and have a wonderful family. Young man, it's one thing to party every now and then, but trust me when i say this you will regret it down the road. Your better than that and you know it. What's the root of your problem, get to that. If your parents aren't showing you enough love or time, speak up, they will listen. Sometimes life is hard and change is even harder, but you are strong enough to overcome it. Your parents have faith in you, and no matter what will always be there for you. :stepsdownoffsaopbox: man i shound like a parent and that's cause I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliaz Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Well my best friend that I’ve known since 1984 (the start of 5th grade) started smoking pot when he turned 19. From age 19 to 21 all he did was get high, deliver pizzas and then go to clubs after hours. Once he turned 21 the bar scene was introduced to him. He would go out with us from happy hour until last call, then go home drunk and get high and play Nintendo 64 until the wee hours of the morning. Between ages 21 and 25 he would do coke, opium, drop acid, do lines of crystal, pot, etc. His drinking increased to take out a 12 pack after work before going out to the bars. He never did much more with his career than being a waiter. As the rest of us bought houses and moved on with our lives he got stuck in the mind set of his early 20s. The drug use got worse and worse and he began blaming all of his problems on us. Telling us that we ignore him. Then one night he went to buy some coke and all the dealer had was crack so he bought a rock. With in 1 month time (30 days) he empted his banking accounts, maxed out all of his credit cards ($8,000) stole his mother check book and empted out all of her checking and savings. Broke into my house and stole VCRs, a change jar, tons of CDs and other stuff we still haven’t figured out yet. He sold everything in his house including those small plastic trash cans for your office. Then he started showing up at my work begging me for money and I would turn him away. At the end of the month desperate for money to get crack he robbed a shell gas station and fled down south to Melborne, Florida. When he showed up down at a friends house down there I got the call from that friend asking me what to do. The police was called and he was arrested. He spent 18 months in prison where he was beaten and raped. He would have to give up his breakfast for a stamp and his lunch for 1 piece of paper to write a letter. Envelopes cost him his dinner for a week. He was beaten at one point so bad that he tried to kill himself by jumping off of the top tier. He finally got out and came back up to Maryland where he works as a waiter and cannot get a good job because he is now a felon. Last I heard he was drinking heavly again and smoking pot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonorator Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 PM sent keg. hope it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbimm Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Yeah Keg I have a personal expierience that will be PM'ed to you in the next day or so. Just not willing to put it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoopazz Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 My sister's first husband. Always the life of the party starting in high school. They married soon after she finished college (he didn't get an education, just partied while she was away) and had two daughters. He continued with the doping around and lots of heavy drinking. He continued to party more and wouldn't listen to any of our cries for him to get help. Long story short...one morning his young daughters found him passed out on the lawn. That was it, my sister changed the locks and divorced him. From then on he never worked and drifted in and out of jail for petty thefts and finally ended up in some social services half way house for addicts and losers. One night one of them fell asleep with a cigarette and burned the joint down. Everyone got out except the one who was passed out loaded...you guest it, it was him. Dead at 37. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoMan Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Google: Todd Marinovich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 (edited) I had a good friend in high school that started to do drugs. We all tried to help him but he wouldn't listen so we just quit hanging around him. Couple of years later he was found dead with a bullet through his head. edit to add: He killed himself. Edited July 13, 2006 by Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatman Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Google: Todd Marinovich Yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Had a friend tripping on acid one night thought the devil was sitting beside him, he jumped out of the jeep going 60 mph. He died about three days later. Had another friend who was just a drunk. He ate a pistol. Have another friend who ended up pregnant at 16, married 3 times spent 18 months in prison, and lost her businesss because of drinking. My little brother's room mate at Texas Tech got high and ran over another car killing an entire family, and has spent the last 10 or so years in prison. My cousin was turned into a vegitable by a drug addict who needed some money. My cousin has stared at the ceiling with blank eyes for going on 16 years this fall, and the addict is still in prison. I myself drank, smoked, and popped my way out of playing college ball, out of two universities (one of them twice), had my fiance leave me, and at one point had my father tell me he never wanted to see my sorry ass on his property again. Lukily I changed my ways, went back to college was on the deans list, a year after I straightened up the fiance came back and we will have been married for 10 years next month, and I now work with my father. I was lucky I didn't end up like my friends above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrograde assault Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Brother in law used meth and ate a bullet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 My favorite uncle cheated on his wife 15 years ago and it tore him up so bad he started into drugs and booze. He lost his family, his fortune and alienated himself from the extended family. He became a mere shadow of his former self. I miss him dearly. On a brighter note, my dad saw him a few weeks ago and he has really turned it around. He's been sober almost two years and goes to AA three times a day. Dad thought he looked like the guys we knew 20 years ago. I mention that second part, bucause it's important not to give up on people. There are masses of low-life scum losers that manage to turn their lives around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiPolarBear Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I had a friend that was an incredible artist. He could pick up a pencil and do a cartoon characture of you that would be so good that you would keep it for the rest of your life. He did Christamas cards one year that were just genius. He was also an incredible drummer as good as any rock drummer you ever heard and alsmost on a par with Billy Cobham. He hardly ever worked and couldn't drive and got chicks that had been invited to the Playboy Mansion. If you are thinking that he must have been a real good looking guy, forget about it. Hw was a short out of shape wimp that stunk from not taking a bath. He continued the drugs he always did (pot, coke) and graduated to herione. He did a little time. The last I heard he was selling vacumn cleaners over the phone and living with his mom. He should be about 50 now. He also had a boyfriend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 He also had a boyfriend. Not relevant to the story but I am curious as to why he ended up with a boyfriend after he banged playboy caliber chicks earlier on. Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSab Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 My wife has friend from childhood, her friend has a daughter that was taking oxycottain first then heroine, she is a flat out junky. Left her 2 kids. She is only 23 years old now and refuses to go to rehab, has been kicked out of 4 already. She can 1 of 2 things, get clean or die at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Had a friend in High school who we used to smoke and drink with all the time. He started using heavier stuff then tried to clean up when he got out of school. He married his High School sweetheart, had a couple of kids & he joined the military to get away from the drugs. Unfortunately he became an orderly and was caught stealing meds from the patients. Since it was a during the Gulf War he was allowed a discharge due to wartime stress. His wife finally got fed up with him and left with the kids. Another friend of mine bumped into him the other day and said he saw him buying a big screen TV for the dilapidated trailer he's living in with his cousin. He also said he looked like he was on death's doorstep. Another good friend, when we met him in High School he didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do drugs. He was one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet and came from a well-off family. He had everything going for him, but once he started drinking in school it started leading to other things. By the time we graduated he was a full-on addict. He spent the next several years in & out of rehab. With every passing year his mind went further & further downhill. When it first started we used to joke with him about it, but before long only his friends & family could understand him when he spoke. Spent some jail time for larceny & possession. Finally he O.D.ed one night all alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiPolarBear Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) Not relevant to the story but I am curious as to why he ended up with a boyfriend after he banged playboy caliber chicks earlier on. Just curious. When I knew him he had no interest in men. He would have even made harsh fun of any gay person. He just kept sinking. I heard the boyfriend lived with him in his room at his mom's house. The person who told me this is his sister's closest friend that visited them and saw it for herself. Edited July 14, 2006 by BiPolarBear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pork chop express Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 A good friend of mine that I have know for over 20 years. We were actually rivals in high school, but we played on some all star teams and so forth. The guy comes from a real good family, granted his folks are divorced, but that should not be the blame for what I am about to tell you. He was a great athlete and got a scholarship to go to college and play soccer. It wasn't D-I, but he got to go to a decent school for pennies and he got to play a sport, so life is good. We all partied in HS. The same as everyone else. You do stupid things and you learn and move on. My man gets to school and starts the hard stuff...pills, coke, acid, and extacy. I mean drinking and pot weren't so much of a drug as the norm. He blows his knee out his sophmore year and then really starts to turn it on. He continues to party and doesn't keep up with his school work. He then loses his scholarship. He takes out loans to stay at the private school. He breaks his arm in a fight later that year and can't play soccer again. He continues to do lots of coke and pils( xanax, valium). He then starts to sell coke to facilitate his partying and so forth. The dude breaks his ankle again later that year and doesn't have any insurance. Wham......pain pills and serious debt. He leaves school, comes back to lovely Roanoke, VA. We are still in school and living our lives. He is Roanoke selling and using. His Dad gets him a good job as a route guy for the local Anheuser-Busch distributor. It isn't fancy, but he can make good money doing that and can start paying his debts...college loans for a degree he never received and his medicals. Well, he fails the drug test. He can't get that job. He gets busted for driving on a suspended license and then gets popped again for possession. Just a downward spiral and it is always someone's fault. No it isn't. It is his fault. There are about five other stories that I can tell, but the outcome is the same. He has managed to stay out of jail other than the 2 weeks here and there, but he will never amount to anything other than a laborer there while all his friends have nice homes and good lives. It is sad. The guy is a sweetheart, but he is lazy and thinks he is owed something. He had all the opportunity and tools to be a successful person, at least a contributing member of society. I have told him I would do anything for him, but give him money. I am here for help and sound advice, but it's all about responsibility. No one owes you a damn thing. Drugs will eventually lead you down a path of self-destruction. Everyone thinks it is bad luck or it won't happen to you....well it will. It will catch up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I guess this might be a little closer to home for you guys. My bro is 26 now and is an alcoholic and frequent drug user. All I know if that he drinks beer, hard liquor straight, smokes pot and does coke. I am fairly confident he does other drugs obviously I just don't know which. My brother was somewhat of a clone of me growing up. He's about 7 years younger then me. I say that because we were type B personalities, introverts, good students, kept to ourselves, etc... The point is we weren't the "type" to get into drugs, alcohol of course but not to the degree is at now. I obviously know that their isn't a type of person that only gets involved in drugs but rather that he was a straight arrow and I didn't think he would venture down that road. Party yes, drugs no. He was a good student and a pretty good hockey player, ice and street. He was a straight arrow until about 16 and then was introduced to pot by his girlfriend and that crew. Eventually she dumped him and that really put him in a spiral downward. The pot / beer eventually led to the other drugs and the harder liquor and now as stated above he is an addict. He is also a schizo as I have stated in another thread which is a whole different ballgame. Anyways, not trying to start a whole Pot debate but it started there and I remember him distinctly saying to me in a drug discussion that Pot is harmless and that he can live day to day smoking pot. Well my other brother can do that and does it but this brother cannot and it eventually led to the other stuff. He does hold down a job at Mickey D's which I have no idea how. His money goes to his vices as he cannot afford to pay my father rent. My parent divorced when he was about 5. He actually adjusted to it pretty well through her remarriage but I think it eventually caught up to him and he now blames my parents, not for his problems but I think just holds a huge grudge against them for the divorce and subsequent disfunction in our family. I too hold a grudge against my mom and my dad somewhat but I choose to just not be as close to them as most kids are to their parents. The point to my ramblings is that he had a lot going for him as he entered the 2nd half of high school and eventually threw it all away to drugs and alcohol. I always had envisioned him to be simliar to me, married with kids and possibly a teacher which is what he wanted to be as a kid. I hope this was somewhat coherent and possibly helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) Not relevant to the story but I am curious as to why he ended up with a boyfriend after he banged playboy caliber chicks earlier on. Just curious. Like Micheal Jordan switching sports? Made the pinnacle of one, now trying another? P.S. Learned my sister is going to prison for the third time for manufacturing and distributing meth yesterday. Was National Honor Soceity member and lead cheerleader in high school, but became a pot user at 17 and rapidly progressed to other drugs. The good news is my teenage daughters, both honor students, got to see her skanky, rotten teeth, strung out ass before she got busted. No better deterrent than having a skeletal junkie say, "I was an honor student!" to the kids... Edited July 14, 2006 by cre8tiff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted July 14, 2006 Author Share Posted July 14, 2006 I really appreciate all the responses and selflessness that some of you have shown posting in this thread... hopefully it will help...also thanks to those that shared some things with me via PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PantherDave Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 He was technically my partner(project manager) for my company, I was higher on the totem pole(my company)-anyway, since June 10 2005 he earned $230,000.00 dollars-well I just fired him this week(he has not been to worh in two weeks), and I knew what was going on, he also got about $6,000 in cash for some side jobs I hooked him up with during the time. His house is ready to be forclosed, his truck repossed(sp) and all his credit cards are maxed out as well-Why? Crack Cocaine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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