weebil64
Striker
A tale I’m sure that is replicated in innumerable families up and down the country. You and your wife have my deepest sympathies.Definitely was the case with our eldest lad - threatened to kill himself many times, usually when he was coming down from a three- or four-day cocaine bender.
We tried to get him to get help but he preferred listening to his arsehole mates. He's now estranged from us, the rest of his family, his ex-girlfriend and their daughter.
After about the fifth occurrence, we simply got fed up of cashing in Bonds, selling cars, clearing our savings accounts, and taking out loans to pay of the debts he had accrued to loan sharks, payday lenders, logbook lenders and drug dealers. His own mother actually asked him to leave the house and not return until his life was in order.
He still owes us, and his last remaining Grandparent, thousands of pounds and we have about as much chance of seeing that repaid as we do of ever seeing our granddaughter and the new one that is on the way by a different girlfriend (whose name we only found about from a swiftly-deleted post on his brother's Facebook page which also contained a photograph of a pregnancy scan).
A whole life wasted because of the increased availabilty of the likes of cocaine, and his inability to resist taking it to excess.
I once did a perfunctory drugs course through my employer and the only thing that stuck was the fact that drugs enhance a mood whether it’s a good mood or a bad one.