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Addiction is Not Always Easy to Recognize.
Click on any of the pictures below to see a larger view.
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 At a "Toga Party." Ian is in the back right
with his friends Kate and Justin.
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With his dear friend Jason.
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This was at Cranbury Park where they used to go to smoke pot and where Ian got picked up by the police his freshman year in high school.
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Ian with some high school buddies. In retrospect I see how sad he was.
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This was the Christmas of Ian's first year at college. He was already using cocaine. I didn't find out until after he died.
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"Mom, I'm always going to have a beer with my friends," Ian told me that last summer. "If you do, you'll go back to the drugs," I said, but he couldn't see that. He really did stay clean that summer. For a while, he was the Ian I used to know. For three months, I had my son back.
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He hung around with Glenn that last summer. With clean kids, non-users. He really was trying so hard, but the drugs were stronger than he was.
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Sitting with Amy, the summer before he left for college. Amy was his last girlfriend. She was there that final night, but he fooled her, too. He must have snorted the heroin after she left.
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Jason took this picture. It was everybody's favorite shot. All of Ian's friends have it hanging in their rooms.
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This was taken at a friend's house two days before he died.
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