There's a guy that grew up with my brothers, he lived a few houses down from us. At 8-13 year old, he would come over and play with my brothers. Well, he took a turn for the worse around 14 or so. Over the past 8 years, I've watched him degrade like that. I swear, at 23 he looked like that. This past year, I'd see him with a sign panhandling, wearing the same dirty ragged clothes for weeks. I couldn't believe a kid from a normal middle class family could degrade so badly! Well, I just got a phone call from a friend a few weeks ago. He'd slashed a guy's wrists and throat and had left him for dead. When they arrested him and put him in jail, he hung himself with the sheets in his cell. In some ways, it's no shock because of how badly he looked the last time I saw him. But, it just blows me away that a cute kid from a middle class family can be torn apart from drugs like that in a matter of years.

They should use those photos more often. It really takes the glamour away from drug use.