No Stupid Questions

This story makes no sense. Why would a dealer front merchandise? The only time that ever happens in real life is if the dealer is male, the buyer is female, and they find the dealer finds them attractive.

Also, which drugs?

Lastly, it's extremely unlikely that a low-level dealer is going to seek "revenge" on a customer. They're usually not gang members; just regular everyday people like you and me who are desperate to make soke extra cash.

You need to spend more time in the real world before you write a story about things that happen out there.

I think you're lacking the depth of experience to be much of an author yet and should focus on living for a while. Try heroin, take another crack at the novel while you're getting clean

Have you ever watched the news? We have many highly publicized examples of rich people being addicted to drugs.

For fiction, I like the approach they took on the tv show House. Maybe not rich but certainly privileged enough to get away with an addiction that would have ruined anyone else’s life.

But maybe a good approach to your story is to imagine an unusual dealer:: a wealthy person is not costing the neighborhood crack house. For example Michael Jackson’s addiction was fed by an actual doctor authorized to write prescriptions so his drugs were “legal”

The only thing that I think is unrealistic about this is drugs are rarely sold on credit. The most common way people get into life-threatening debt is underground gambling

EDIT: A certain type of rich person falls into the trap of cocaine plus alcohol benders. Combine that with a gambling habit and you have a very quick way to ruin a life

Rich people absolutely get addicted to drugs. They just have sufficient resources that it doesn't affect their lives as detrimentally in many cases. Elon is up to his eyeballs in ketamine on a given day.

Look at RFK. Shipped off to private schools and spent plenty of that time getting kicked out and transferred to other private schools because he was a dick and on drugs.

Elon Musk uses so much ketamine he ruined his bladder. He's also a nazi pedophile, but that isn't related

Bro narcotics are probably the most reliable thing that kills rich people

Rich people do get addicted to drugs.

The unrealistic part is the fanily being killed because they can't pay.

Why can't they pay? I thought they were rich? And a drug dealer isnt going to kill the only people who could conceivably pay him.

Take a look at the Reiner story. Being rich and famous doesn't stop drugs from ruining families.

Killing your junkies don't make sense. Even with small dealers they know how much they can 'lend out' to their clients. After the client gets to the point they get cut off. But they will have 20$ next time. You will give them 10$ material and keep the other 10 for their loan.
How they got the money, you don't ask. Customer service even in drug business is the key to long term success.
And sometimes people who went to jail come back months later, because they hit big and they can afford to pay back that 16$ that you never thought you will see again.. and then spend more money that you didn't think they had.

Never kill someone who owes you money - that’s terrible business. Kill for revenge or to send a message…

There are plenty of rich addicts. Charlie Sheen and Whitney Houston spring to mind. Anna Nicole Smith was a literal billionaire.

"Tough love" is also a real thing. Families throw addicts out all the time. the idea is that if things get bad enough the addict will "hit bottom" and seek help.

The idea of a dealer killing a customer is the part that makes little sense. The dealer wouldn't give an addict drugs without cash up front. Dealers know exactly how unreliable addicts are.

How about the addict tries to steal from the dealer and the dealer kills them in self defense?

You might want to look up the case of Carrol O'Connor. Famous actor, his son died after an overdose. O'Connor called the son's dealer a murderer and the dealer tried to sue him for defamation of character.

The thing about rich people is, that Ehen you have the money to buy all the drugs you want, you can do quite a lot of them until it starts to affect you financially.

Just think about how much cocaine rich people like to snort.

Dealer shouldn't plan to kill them, just threaten them, then accidentally kill them in a scuffle

I grew up a middle class kid in the rich suburbs. That's so realistic and common it's practically cliche.

The only realistic part is the rich parents not making the kid out when it really came down to it. You don't hear about it more because Rich parents get their kids out of drug issues and DUIs like the rest of us run errands on a Tuesday night.

Yes, they do. I haven't heard about a human being that would consume drugs and will not gain an addiction to them over time.

Drug addiction can happen among rich families, yes. Coke is common among them because it tends to be an expensive party drug.

As Noel_Skum mentioned, the dealer likely wouldn't kill the guy who owed them. Some much more likely ways the dealer would act:

• Kidnap the debtor and ask for a ransom from the family
• Get info on the family in order to kidnap some relative
• Steal from the family home (likely convincing the debtor to do that, as they likely know where mom's jewels are, etc)
• The two make a plot to kill the parents so the child can inherit the entire fortune and pay off the debt.

All of these have happened in real life

I mean...

Exhibit A: Succession...

Literally every episode has drugs...

Its not a show about bussiness... its just parties, drugs, famiky therapy, a board meeting coup-attempt in between, more parties, and DRUGS

Elon is addicted to ketamine.

Not to mention all the celebrities who have OD'd throughout the ages.

If they were some kind of nepobaby and just given everything in life without having to work for it, it would be fairly realistic that they may not have the ability to make money of their own quickly enough to satisfy their dealer.

A lot of kids who grow up rich grow up bored, seeking ways to not be bored. When you can afford pretty much anything and you’re surrounded by people who promise to give you something new and exciting, it’s easy to get addicted.

To drugs. To booze. Sex. To adrenaline. And people are willing to provide all of it.

The unrealistic part is the drug dealer killing his user. It’s business. Killing your customers coz they got cut off is bad for business. Especially when the families are wealthy enough to buy their own justice.

Before it ever gets that far, though, the family probably pays off the drug dealer and lets them know there’s no more money there. The dealer might not cut them off, but they’re certainly not trusting that the addict is “good for it.”

Even if the dealer was that stupid, to let that debt large enough… there’s other ways they can pay. Access. Contacts. Information. Dirt.

I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.

Also, if you're a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that's really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.

A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.

Rich folks despise their drug addict children and cut them off out of shame (the real spoiler is that these parents create the addiction). So the one who gets revenge should be the black sheep of the family who tried their best to keep the addict around.

More realistic might be the addict does something stupid out of desperation like try to rob his dealer and is killed in the process.

I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.

He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren't terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.

Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.

Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.

Regarding murdering because of money, I'd recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can't pay drug dealer, can't get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like "won the lottery" money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.

All you managed to do with this post is very clearly and on several levels show everyone your unbelievable ignorance and idiocy. I'm sorry but holy hell... Everything you wrote is just so weirdly dumb and like you have been living in a closed room with no Internet access for your whole life until right before you made this post. HOW do you not know that rich people get addicted to drugs? It's like the leading unnatural death cause for them, and very obviously so. And then the plot hole chaos of completely illogical actions and events in your story, you managed to cram so much of it into three small paragraphs. It'd still be so oddly lacking in basic comprehension even if it turns out that you're 10 years old.

Drugs =/= Drugs

But it kinda makes sense with coke and K..

Other drugs are either not that addictive / live destroying ( thinking MD/Acid) or too cheap low quality drugs (meth etc.) that don’t fit into the rich kid setting.

Of course MD and acid can have their place in the story, but I would concentrate on coke and K for realism.

They tend to be pretty miserable and can afford them so my gut feeling is that they are actually more likely.

It wouldn't work for reasons you're not asking about.

1: you have to have a VERY close relationship with a drug to go into any sort of debt with them.

2: Maybe if he first got the money from a loan shark first, but even then they will rarely go after family, and usually it's if they can't find you first. And they have ways of finding you, especially if you belong to a prominent family. Your foot print on your area is much bigger than most people think it is.

And also there's a ton of stories about rich people falling down the auction rabbit hole.

Why wouldn't they?