What has someone done to you to make you never trust them again?

Heroin

Count yourself extremely lucky if you've never dealt with a friend or family member with an addiction. I can't remember where I heard it but someone said it better than I could: With addiction you're not dealing with a person you're dealing with a drug.

We tried to help, we paid for rehab, we tried tough love, soft love and everything in between and it didn't make a bit of difference in the end. He died huddled inside a dumpster with discarded needles next to him. The paper quoted many of his friend saying what a great guy he was but they didn't know him. They didn't see him born a wrinkled, smelly mess. They weren't there as he grew. They didn't hold him in their arms when he was 9 and had a fever so high he had a seizure. They didn't listen to his high school teachers says how smart he was if only he would apply himself. They didn't yell at him and threaten to kick him out of the house if he didn't go back to rehab even while his mother gave him money and told him to stay someplace warm. They knew only a drug.

We won't make the mistake of trusting heroin again. We won't believe it or feed it ever again.

When an out of town friend showed up unexpectedly at 2am asking for money (not a place to stay or food, just cash) I looked him calmly in the eyes and said "no." then closed the door and went back to bed.

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