Comment by monocasa

He and been way off the rails for decades before that.

In fact, growing up in the very affluent part of my city, I saw a bunch of kids die using opiates to mentally escape the weird family fiefdoms where they [p/m]atriarch inexplicably wouldn't ever need for money, so went completely off the rails mentally. I was prescribed a bunch of opiates (including fent) after a bad ski accident, and can tell you that they basically work by turning down the volume on life around you. I can understand why someone would turn to them to mentally escape a bad family life.

About the only good thing I can say about recreational Xanax is that those kids are generally still alive in contrast to the ones who preferred opiates.