Then he started hanging out with an older crowd. He moved on to alcohol, then hard drugs like cocaine, and one day, methamphetamines. He was shooting up meth by the time he turned 13, following the example of a cousin. Another close relative became a using partner. And he started to sink.
Drugs take control fast.
You have no say in it after a while. He quit school after the eighth grade. School, he explains, was interfering with his drug use. He stopped hanging out with people because he didn't want to share his drugs. Mike went from being a user to a seller.