He shared tips that, in my view, remain among the best prevention advice I’ve seen dispensed to parents of at-risk teens: Rid your medicine cabinets of anything that has codone, indicative of morphine components, in the name. Set rules and hold kids accountable when they break them, even if it means they go to jail. “The problem with me was, the trouble had to outweigh the fun,” he said. Though his mother, Ginger Mumpower, had sent him to fifteen different rehab facilities, for eight years Spencer managed to use and sell drugs before his name ever entered a police blotter.
