How has it effected you?

A family member, mother, father, grandparents, children or other loved ones.

This isnt solely about drug addiction. There are many addictions, alcohol, porn, hoarding, gambling, drugs.......

There isnt anyone I can think of that hasnt been negatively impacted by this.

I will not judge any person that responds, I encourage anyone who wishes to respond to open and honest. If someone wishes to judge you, I pray the moderators delete their nonsense.

If you wish to send a PM that is absolutely fine.

Thank you for your honesty

Since this seems like it will be a very positive post I'll be watching it , anything negative or judgemental starts its gone. I'll probably be sending you a pm in a bit

thanks

My second wife's gambling broke up that marriage. She just could never control it.

lost a few to alcoholism

one uncle , uncle Dan passed at 60 from organ failure , he drunk himself to death , in and out of AA I never saw him drunk , he was only ever around when he was in AA

another uncle , uncle Henry died in a car wreck at 32 he was driving , something he had been a lot better about not doing the past several years , he could quit driving a lot better than he could quit drinking.

thankfully it was just him , his girlfriend's mini-van he had just put brakes on and an oak tree.
he had issues drinking all of his adult life
spend a lot of his years not driving at all , or just riding a dirt bike to and from work
her car needed work he drove it to work and used the heated shop to fix the brakes , then went off the road into an oak tree on the way home
could it have been something besides the roads were Icey it was January , maybe but when his tox screen came through , it was certainly a contributing factor.

nicest , friendliest drunk you have ever met.
also the hardest worker you might have ever met. work hard , then drink hard , but be on time to work even when he was riding his bike to work.

my wife's cousin was very similar , very friendly drunk , really nice guy, worked hard then drank heavy , organs shut down at 50

Niece is a heroin addict. Beautiful woman but won’t make any effort to quit. Pays for it by hooking. Actually was on 2 episodes of Dr. Phil. Lots of heartache for the family. I expect a call some night that they found her dead.

That's rough corky. Sorry for you and your family.

My son has an addiction with video games. Very smart kid but he flunked out of college because he was video-gaming rather than studying. You can fake it and get through in High School but not so much in 4 year college undergrad program. He's 29 now and still spends most of his leisure time when not working video gaming. I have read that it is as addictive as heroin.

Had a stepson who used every drug there was. He rarely drew a sober breath. Died at 39 from heart failure.

I could write a book on all the issues his addiction caused.

I have lost maybe 8-10 friends from alcohol abuse. One died from cirrhosis of the liver at 38, one at 44,one at 45.

Opiods took the wife’s sister and brother at young ages. Back when they lived in Florida and they were handing out pills to anyone who wanted them. Dang shame.

Brother in law has had issues off and on since getting back from Afghanistan. He always picked thr wrong women also.

He seems to be on a better path the last few years, solid job as a diesel mechanic, no drugs, didn't loose his good place when his cheating drug addict wife left, he didn't get back into the drugs. He does drink and to much but catches when it's getting out of control and pulls back. I hope he stays on the right path. But his dad has just found out he has cancer so we will see hoe it plays out.

My adopted brother and sister were adopted due to their parents drug issues. Sadly a few of them also have some drug use. I'm not close to them since they are younger and I moved out of moms when I was 16 because of them. Had them several years in foster care before they were available for adoption. I took care of a big part of their care. BUT I didn't sign up to be daddy at 16 so moved out. They make poor choices it's sad but not my problem. Upsetting for mom is the only reason it effects me and I have very little contact with them. Can't stand people that won't better themselves.

My father was a chronic alcoholic. He went away for treatment and rehab about a dozen times. He was also a heavy smoker and lost a lung to cancer. He struggled with a tobacco addiction as well.

Cancer killed him in his 60s. He never saw any of his grandkids, which is a shame.

My wife's sister also had an alcohol problem and a brief drug problem. Her family intervened along with her employer, and she was hospitalized. That was 15 years ago and she is still alcohol-free and attends AA meetings several times per week. She is a divorcee with an adult son. He has a drug problem and a theft problem. He has been in prison twice and in court many times. He is doing better but can't hold a job. He washes dishes and is paid in cash with no W2 or SS withholding. He has no future whatsoever. He was so addicted to cigarettes in his youth that he could not sit in class. He skipped school and quit in the 10th grade. He has stolen from all his friends, neighbors, and family. addiction ruined his life.

Between tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, and think cigarettes might be the hardest for many people to kick than the other two.

I lost my younger (only) brother to a Fentynol overdose. He was only 29. August 29th will be 5 years he has been gone. My youngest sister is also a drug addict. Last I knew, she was smoking crack. I haven't talked to her in about 4 years.

Wat about those cell phone addictions many cant put them down.

We lost our youngest son to a fentynol overdose 5 years ago. He was 25. He was still living with us. That was the worst thing we've ever been through. It was terrible having to tell my wife that he's gone.

Dad's 2nd wife was an alcoholic. Drank herself to death at 34. Sad, she had a 19 year old daughter. I'm not sure exactly what her issues were but obviously, she needed help. Fortunately, I wasn't exposed to it too much because my parents divorced several years before and we lived 3 states away.

Youngest daughter did 7 years federal time for meth distribution. Still on parole but may get early release. Been sober 10 years. Worked since release. Doing real good now. She was a mess.

Been dipping Skoal since I was 12. 37 years now…

Tell myself everytime I buy a roll I gotta quit. Guessing it’ll take a hole in my jaw before I wise up.

Little different addiction...

My mom has always liked cats, and growing up we always had too many. But as she's gotten older, her obsession with cats has turned into a full blown addiction. She's the stereotypical Crazy Cat Lady. It's to the point that the cats have brought about her financial ruination. Always poor, she's now to the point that her and her husband can't pay their bills, largely due to the cats. At any given time she might have between 15-30 of them... some in the house, some outside. They can't afford groceries, but she buys them canned cat food. They can't afford to take them to the vet, so disease runs rampant in them, and most of the time when one has a litter, the entire litter dies before they hit 8 weeks old. But now and then part of a litter survives and increases her horde. She won't get rid of them, saying she needs to find them good homes, but then won't even advertise them to try and find homes because someone once told her people claim free cats to feed snakes with.

It's incredibly frustrating to me, and I just want to sneak over there one day when she's at an appt and kill every last one of them. But it wouldn't do any good... she'd find more.

I had two surgeries to transplant back of mouth tissue up to my lower lip so I wouldn't have a hole where the the dip had eaten away. I quit but it was tough.

I was a Copenhagen guy for close to 30 years, Gave it up about 10 years ago.
You need to quit because that stuff will get you eventually!