We're talking here with
every effort that we have to
try to get a sense of what's going on,
but Cassie seems to be very hyper and unfocused
at this point.
What's your relationship with her
at this stage in her life?
I'm pretty much like, her best friend.
I try to be there for her when she needs me.
I'm the ex boyfriend, she used to live with me.
She ended up having a seizure
and smacked her face on the concrete,
and that's when I asked her to move out after that,
when she wouldn't go for help.
Mmhm, and-- And after that,
she went to live with her mom,
and I think within a day, she had a relapse
and was living down by her dad doing drugs,
turning tricks.
Mmhm, and you've seen her doing drugs with her dad, right?
Yeah, I've actually done drugs,
back out of high school, with them myself.
So, this was many years ago, all the way up through now,
for her, not for you.
Right.
And-- Yeah, back,
back outta high school, back outta high school,
we, she would always wanna go see him, help him,
and so we'd take him to like, the grocery store.
We weren't even 21, so we couldn't even buy alcohol,
so we would have him buy our alcohol for us
and shortly after that, it turned into drinking and then
we would go down there to smoke crack
and he'd be doing it with us.
Well, I kinda made a list of what you guys described
and that was, you were doing,
he was doing crack with you guys at 17 and 18,
watched you use heroin,
hosted house parties,
let the house parties take place there,
really poor living conditions,
she was drinking 1.75 liters of alcohol daily,
really a friend not a father,
still using drugs and alcohol,
and Cassie, you say he's got the same dealer as you?
There's so many dealers that we both are,
yeah, I mean, because he would get robbed by everybody.
My dad just wants companionship,
he was never loved as a child.
This is where I feel bad for him.
He, Dad, be honest, you do talk (beep) me
and blame stuff on me.
His mother died and it was his birthday that day
and he asked if he was still gonna have a birthday party
and he got his ass beat,
so he never had love, and then it's like,
I always want his acceptance, but I don't--
We need to focus on you.
Why?
I don't wanna focus on, no no, I know,
I know, that's what I meant, my questions,
I know what I have a problem with like,
I wanna focus on everybody else because if I can put it
on everybody else and be concerned about them,
I don't gotta actually feel what I'm feeling.
I remember coming to you.
I was an atheist before like, a few years ago.
I prayed to the Lord and I said,
"Please, if you're like, real, help me."
Mmhm. And I stopped drinking,
like, the other liter.
Mmhm. No one actually,
like she, no one believes me.
Everyone thinks I'm on drugs, that that's why I like,
this drug test thing, I am--
Well, we did a drug test on you today, right?
Oh yeah, can I please have the results?
I'm begging you. Yeah, mmhm.
Tell me what the results are gonna show.
Uh, buprenorphine,
buprenorphine, which is Suboxone,
and then also, it's called Daytrana,
so that'd be Ritalin.
Mmhm. That's it.
Yeah, well let's take a look at it.
Cassie agreed to take a drug test earlier today
and here are the results.
I begged.
She was positive for methamphetamine,
and that's usually what you see in terms of meth, blue--
Metham... Crystal, that sort of thing.
Then she was positive for BUP which is
what you take with Suboxone,
and she was positive for benzodiazepines,
which are psychoactive drugs such as Xanax,
Valium, Klonopin-- Librium?
Librium, my doctor tried to get me off alcohol
with Librium, so, Jace, I told you.
Wait, what would meth, would meth, here,
actually, I even have it on me.
You didn't tell us that you were taking methamphetamines.
No, it's methylphenidate, it's Daytrana, somewhere--
Might explain, might explain why you're so hyper.
No.