Book Post 2

I am currently about 3/4ths done with Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg.  Bill is currently in a hotel room where he is with a man that he met at an airport.  They first begin drink alcohol and after a couple hours they start doing crack/cocaine.  While doing the drugs, Bills boyfriend calls him on his cell phone asking where he is.  His boyfriend, Noah, correctly assumes that he is doing cocaine, and demands that he go back home immediatly, thus showing that Bill does have people who care about him and want him to stop using the drugs.  Bill then hangs up on his boyfriend and starts a one night relationship with the man from the airport.  This shows that these kinds of drugs can destroy relationships with friends and family.  The next morning Bill discovers that alltogether he has less than $30,000 dollars in the bank.  He has spent all of his money on buying cocaine for himself and people that he does the drugs with.  He also somehow manages to help his mother with her finances that came with divorcing his father a few years before.  The drug abuse by Bill was a major factor in the downfall of his parents marriage.