“I’m speaking professionally-as a case manager-but I’ve also seen this in my own family a couple of times-no family is immune...”
Had it in my family. Relative was smoking crack in our basement and stealing from us. We were fortunate. A pastor from our church got the subject into rehab and it worked.
About 15 years ago, one of my cousins got into doing meth-he was in rehab but relapsed less than a year later and was way, way out there-no one could get through to him. He found out that his sister had a lawyer and was getting ready to have him committed-he just disappeared and no one has seen or heard from/of him since-the family hired a private outfit to look for him and they traced him to Denver-after that it all went cold. Everyone is pretty sure he met a bad end and is dead.