Should I turn my back on my drug-using brother?
Q I have a complicated relationship with my brother that changed for the worse when our mother suddenly died. Were both in our fifties and are the younger part of four siblings. During his teenage years he started taking drugs, which he sometimes blamed on my father (my parents had an acrimonious divorce). Cannabis was his drug but most of his life revolved around it until he was arrested for growing plants. Sponsored  The family rallied round to keep him out of prison and he started a new life abroad. He stopped smoking cannabis and started working. During this time our father came back into our lives after years of estrangement due to his, at times, nasty behaviour. Then six years ago my mother died suddenly.