Lost my brother...

I was friends with a boy I playyed baseball with for 8 years and we were good friends until late high school when he got into drugs. I tried to help him and keep him away from the wrong kind of friends but eventually I told him he was going to end up dead and went away to school. Three years later I got a call informing me that he overdosed. The sad thing about it is that they way the criminal justice system works today you can't get away from that way of life once you get caught.