His father’s death brought him some cash from the insurance which nearly all went to drugs.
There was no longer any hiding his problem from his family.įinally, his children ended up safely with relatives but Marco continued to deteriorate. Despite being a drug user, his wife got custody of the children and Marco’s world was further destroyed. Marco’s finances began to fall apart, as did his father’s, on whom he often depended for money to buy more drugs. In the middle of a crack cocaine binge in 2006, when his youngest child was six months old, his wife suddenly disappeared. A third baby complicated things even more.īut right here, both of them began to deteriorate quickly and severely. Marco and his wife still tried to separate their drug abuse from their children but were only partly successful. Before long, they had graduated from cocaine to crack cocaine which hit him much harder than power coke ever had. Another baby came and the burden got heavier.Īn overdose almost killed his wife but that only stopped them for a few weeks. Somehow they managed to cope with taking care of the baby and still abusing drugs, trying to keep those activities separate. They agreed to stop abusing drugs in the later part of the pregnancy but a few months after the baby was born, they returned to their habits. Because they were living near the Mexican border, the drugs were cheap.Ī year and a half later, they had their first child. He met a woman who shared his taste for drugs and alcohol and they established a relationship in a terrible pattern of working, using his father’s money to buy more drugs and then using copious amounts of cocaine. Doctors helped him pull through a crisis of pancreatitis, a common problem for heavy alcohol abusers, and he returned to working and drug abuse. His body began to break down under the strain of excess weight and substance abuse. He was closing bars every night and using cocaine when he needed to be awake and alert. He thought he found his true love but when they broke up, his drug and alcohol abuse got much worse.
His dad helped him find another couple of jobs but the quality of Marco’s production was suffering from his drug abuse. He finally got fired when the discrepancies were found. “My parents were gullible but at the same time, they knew.”Ī little at a time, Marco began to steal small amounts of money from his company so he could buy drugs when he was out of cash. “I’d make excuses about where I had been,” he said. He began to disappear overnight a few times a month because of his partying and drug use with his friends. Gradually, Marco’s cocaine use and drinking began to creep up without his realizing it. Marco’s father was an influential man, and his influence helped Marco get good jobs with good money attached to them. But here too, he finally got the hang of it after a little while. When he finally tried it, it was not much of a thrill. Soon after he graduated, he lifted a tiny bag of cocaine from a friend who was selling it and held onto it for awhile. He’d sneak into his room at night, trying to not alert his parents. By the time he was a senior in high school, he had fallen into the pattern of drinking after Friday night football games. He started drinking in high school and didn’t even like it at first. By the time he won the battle, he had been abusing drugs like powder cocaine, crack or alcohol for eighteen years. His addiction would go on for another three years before Marco would finally find a way to beat it. By the time he was 35 years old, Marco had a wife, three children - and an addiction to crack cocaine.
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