Mine had a traumatic childhood involving severe abuse and neglect. He was put in care and further abused and institutionalised.
He fell in with the wrong crowd.
He never had a stable parental figure or roots in 1 place and was introduced to drugs by a family member!
He has dabbled in drugs on and off with a couple of periods of severe addiction – by that I mean he literally was living to take the drugs and ending up with nothing. One of these is happening now and the other I only found about recently but happened years ago.
I think mine has such bad trauma and mental health issues that are untreated that drugs seem some kind of fix or respite/relief. In reality, they are not that at all.
He is now traumatising me and his child… we will have problems going forwards because of what he’s doing.