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Xanator
I'm not saying that perfectly nice people don't wind up involved with drugs, go through rehabilitation, and become perfectly nice people again, but. From what personal life experience I have in the matter:
My wife's aunt married a guy she met in rehab (heroin), they relapsed constantly and ended up with Hep C from sharing needles, she died almost two years ago at the age of 46. My mother-in-law dated a guy she used to shoot up with for years and years, and remained on a cocktail of prescription anti-anxiety meds, anti-depressants, and painkillers that he pressured her to convince various doctors she needed until she died right after New Years' 2009 of acute fentanyl intoxication at the age of 51.
My father-in-law, who was also a former heroin addict who contracted Hep C at a younger age, married a woman who had nothing to do with his addiction days, and ended up never touching the stuff again en route to a very successful and lucrative career in animation and design. He was one of the most genuinely happy and fulfilled people I ever knew before he was unfortunately taken from us in 2006 at the age of 44.
The general rule of thumb, from what I've been told and observed, is once you quit it, quit the whole scene. Don't talk to the people you knew, don't read your old diaries, don't hang out at your old stomping grounds, don't slam a bottle of vodka and blow trees with a chick who got booted from her halfway house, don't slam a bottle of vodka and blow trees with the guy who's letting you crash on his couch since you got kicked out of your halfway house, etc. All the better for protecting you from yourself, and certainly keeps you out of some seriously compromising situations.
BUT! It is so cool to get getting play play-by-play from a stoned drunk guy on an internet forum. The topic of this thread is fail, but the thread itself is win.
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