Drug abuse is the best way to destroy your life. It’s even better at ruining lives than my ex-girlfriend. Drugs killed one of my friends in high school and they almost killed my brother Todd. Todd was just like any other drug abuse story I had heard. He got into drugs and alcohol socially and with friends from school. His friends were actually the ones that him into using and eventually abusing drugs. It didn’t take long for Todd to get to a level of drug abuse that was not only dangerous to him but to everyone around him as well. Something finally had to be done to save my brother from the doom he was facing.

Todd’s drug abuse was bad enough to check him into a drug treatment center and everybody knew it. The problem that we all faced was trying to get Todd to realize that he had a problem that needed fixing. We all decided that an intervention was the only sure fire way to go. I knew that we’d get a little resistance from Todd and that was okay. I knew that in the end my brother would come around and realize that we were all there out of love and nothing else.

Things got really emotional that day and we all ended blubbering. It was okay though, because that day my brother checked into a drug rehab and started treatment right away. He’s still finishing up the program these days but I know he’ll be fine. He always is.

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