Theyare both long-term injectingopiate users. The third sibling is not drug involved. His childhoood was marred by his father's violent behaviour and chronic heavy drinking. His parents are still together. Age has modified his father's drinking and his rages.
Mother is employed as a nurse, father as a manual worker.
At school Darren achieved four CSEs and left aged 16. He is ambitious and regrets not having more qualifications. His developed sense of responsibility has survived his childhood and he is both aware of his own actions and influenced by those of others. Following calculated and pre-meditated experimentation, the boundaries were established and maintained. Darren's drug use started with alcohol, drinking regularly and sometimes heavily since the age of 17.