Blaming the drug, rather than the person on the drug
Alcoholic Myth-of-the-Month: "It's the drugs' fault"
"All of the problems I have had are because of my granddaughter's friends, her drug-using friends....It's not her fault; it's the people who sold drugs because they weren't taken off the street."
So said Jack Whittaker, who was the winner of the biggest undivided lottery in U.S. history two years ago with a $113 million lump sum, when his only granddaughter, Brandi Bragg, 17, was recently found dead of a drug overdose.
Whittaker and others said Brandi's instant access to great wealth brought her new friends and dangerous "habits." Yet, Whittaker failed to take into account his own behaviors and genes, along with the warning signs of inherited "habits."
Whittaker, arrested twice in the past ...
