If anyone could get evicted from a prepaid storage unit, it was our brother. What we didn't know, though, was that for the past several months, he'd been spending almost every day in our mom's storage unit. To cope with the sadness and stress over the storage unit situation, I went home and typed out my thoughts. "I too have known the pain of addiction in the family," wrote another. It's heartbreakingly common: A 2017 Pew Research Study found that nearly half of US adults have a friend or family member addicted to drugs or alcohol.

Source: Stuff April 11, 2019 17:26 UTC