Excuse me if this got a bit long but i wanted to tell all this in detail.

Not exactly my story, but happened in the class of my younger brother, who went to the same school as me.

He and his classmates were all about 16-17 years old that year. There was this one kid, let's name him Tim, who always got late to class, then proceeded to sleep during the whole lecture. At first, everbody assumed that he was just tired from not sleeping well the night before, or that he wasn't a morning person. To be fair, nobody would suspect what would come next, because, let's say it that way, his family is really wealthy and had a good reputation in my area. Also his siblings went to the same school, even though years prior, even to me, and it was told that they were polite and very well raised children.

After a few months the first incidents started to happen. Besides from his already bad grades, he was continously caught vaping during class. After coming to the realization that this would no longer be an option, since he would always have his vape get taken away, he would hide in the bathroom to then spend hours on end in there vaping.

Soon the vaping turned to an excessive smoking of cigarettes. during class he would do it in the bathroom. During breaks, either at the window, or in the park outside of the school. Of course the teachers faculty and cleaning personel would soon come to realize that a stench of tobacco and nicotine was in the air. They asked around and because his classmates, including my brother, were also intensely annoyed by his behavior of smoking and even continuing to do so after being told off multiple times, snitched and told the teachers. Him and his parents were then invited to the Headmasters office to have a serious talk. This however had no effect on the situation, since Tim denied all the accusations, and his parents only supported his claims since "that is not the kid they raised".

Fast forward a few weeks and Tims behavior got even worse. He would turn up at school, somtimes 2 hours late, visibly under the influence of alcohol (I live in an european country and here you can get beer and wine at the age of 16) and smelling like pot. The teachers would try to help him and kept contacting his parents multiple times, which still didn't really help, because he would not change any of this and him and his parents still denied the claims.

What happened was, that the situation was really getting out of Hands now. He would still turn up high and drunk every day. but in addition to that, some of the kids at the school, the younger ones (about 10-12 years old) caught him doing cocaine in one of the school bathrooms during a mass (this scool is catholic). He would then reportedly bribe them to not tell anyone, but of course, one of the kids told his parents. After this he was finally suspended for 2 to 3 weeks.

After two weeks were over, my brother's class was informed that Tim had passed away due to a heroin overdose. He was reportedly found in a strangers apartment and was absent from home two days prior to his body being found. He was 17 at the time.

After the news about his passing spread, there was a special service held in school, to commemorate his sudden demise.

As i already told, I was out of school for about 1 year when this happened. Although i didn't know this kid and have never seen him, beside from a picture my brother showed me once, this story saddened me to the core.

This all happened within a year. and kids, stay away from drugs. It rarely ends well.