Growing Up in a Drug House in Portland

• 12:54Tim didn't hear about meth until the early 2000s despite living in a drug house—it wasn't part of the scene in the late 90s.
• 13:48In recovery, he lost maybe two friends to meth but thirty people to heroin relapse—completely different culture.
• 14:46He's always been someone hungry for life experience, getting himself into messes, watching Behind the Music and thinking he'd be really good at the self-destruction part.
• 15:11Tim quit cocaine using alcohol, convinced he had control because he could swap one drug for another.
• 15:29At 22, he drank three-quarters to a full bottle of Kettle One every night at Lisa's Lounge—a bar named after the owner's daughter who died in a DWI.
• 16:17When he switched from alcohol to meth, that was different—it was immediate and daily, no casual phase.
• 17:18His mother started renting rooms to drug dealers when he was in eighth grade, turning the house into the place to buy from.
• 18:08His mother made creamed spinach one night and every addict, dealer, acid guy, and coke guy in town were sitting in the living room eating it together.
• 18:36His mother was schizophrenic—born on drugs, in his words, already on home plate without needing to take anything.
• 19:21A woman named Michelle in her thirties moved in, and he and his friend Shay at 15 started hanging with her doing cocaine, driving around in her Lincoln.

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