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Another Senseless Overdose

7/18/2016

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Last night my husband and I lost a great guy to another senseless overdose, We've known him since we were kids. He was my brother-in-law's brother. He worked for my husband over the past few years. and was doing very well.  He has an amazing adult son who will miss him. 
As much as I try to do do to help people get treatment, find recovery and stay well, I really wish that I could have helped this one. He always had a smile, sensitive and was good hearted. 

​My daughter Laura wrote the below post on Facebook out of frustration:
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I'm so sick of drugs taking people I love from me. Once again I lost someone in my family to drugs. The shit that's going around right now is worse then you think. So if your planning on doing drugs, please just stop and think about this. My family is going to be forever affected by this. And someone in my family just lost their life. Their LIFE.
​So next time
you think about sticking a needle in your arm, remember that not only might you die. But your family is going to suffer a pain so much worse then whatever self pity your feeling. It's selfish. And it's cowardly. And you can just stop. Just do it. It really is that simple. Stop letting everyone tell you different. You CAN just stop. Man up and do it. Make a decision right now. Whether you want to gamble with your life every day or you actually want to start living one before it's too late. And for everyone that thinks "they have Narcan now" that they will just "save you" .. It doesn't work like that. Narcan was made to TRY to save the lives of people who overdosed. It wasn't made so you can just do it on purpose and have them bring you back. Narcan has saved a lot of lives. But there were a lot of lives it couldn't save. Enough is enough already. I'm so sick of this.
For the record the only reason for this post is that if even just one person actually reads it and decided they can just simply not put a drug in their body. It might save their life. Maybe it will trigger something in someone I don't even know and make them stop. I don't know. But maybe.
Rest in peace man, we will all miss you. The Angels are with you now. Find your peace 💕
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