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My anecdotal experience is that, while the hard drugs part might be a decent heuristic, exceptions are common. I personally know several people who did meth regularly and later in life cleaned up and became successful professionals and raisers of families. Heroin use is common among successful musicians who are not antisocial in any serious way.
Now, of course, if I had to choose to be roommates with one of two people and I knew nothing about them other than one of them had used meth or heroin heavily at some point and the other one didn't, I would choose the non-user. Hard drug use is correlated with antisocial behavior, no doubt about it. I'm just saying that hard drug use, past or present, is not firm evidence that the person engages in seriously antisocial behavior.
Most recovered addicts of heroin, meth, or crack never become quite normal or able to fully act as adults IME, and of course I simply doubt that successful musicians are ever quite normal(although most don't do heinous crimes, either). It's fair to note recovered hard drug addicts long after the fact because normal people don't want to use those drugs, and being an addict leaves a scar on the psyche anyways.
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