“My mom kept calling me. I ignored her. Next thing I know, I’m waking up to paramedics in my face. I overdosed. If my mom had gotten home 5 minutes later, it would’ve been too late. I would’ve been gone. Something told her she needed to walk home from work the very moment I didn’t answer her calls. Someone was looking out for me.”
‘I was staying at a hotel. My friend had a clean needle, and just like that, I shot up meth for the very first time. My entire world flipped upside down.’: Addict’s powerful story of finally getting clean after hitting ‘rock bottom’
‘She is our daughter. What she is NOT is a junkie’: Dad’s desperate plea ‘to do a better job’ after daughter’s overdose death
“We need to send a message to drug dealers that we will no longer allow you to peddle poison in our neighborhoods.”
‘My half-brother became an orphan at 2 years old, and was finally adopted after 458 days, by me – his sister.’
“Easton attended the second most monumental funeral of his life before he could even talk in full sentences. He became an orphan, unexpectedly, in only 12 days. He’s now a brother to 4 sisters whom he is biologically the uncle of!”
‘I knew my brother had died before I even picked up the phone’: Sister resented her mom’s grief for brother who overdosed until she had a son of her own
“My mom valued my brother’s death more than me, and I was still here.”
‘When you lose a second child, broken becomes shattered’: Devastated family rallies for father to escort late son’s girlfriend to prom
“With tears in our eyes, we explained to the staff why my 50 year old husband was attending a high school prom.”
From heroin addict to PTA treasurer mom: ‘I used to stick needles in my neck’
“In the process of dying, I learned that I wanted to live.”
‘I found ‘employment.’ It was anonymous web cam sex with strangers. Anything I had to do to support the habit had to be done. I used my own daughter as a pawn.’
“When we got ready for the ceremony, my sister put on her wedding jewelry, and in a split second, I saw her turn, and I swiped her gold necklace. On her WEDDING DAY. I pawned it, and knew I was good for another day.”
‘She messaged me not to worry. She would be home in the morning. I told my husband something was wrong. I finally laid down, only to be woken by my doorbell minutes later.’ Mom tragically loses ‘beautiful’ daughter to heroin overdose
“It was 3:44 a.m. I remember walking to the door and seeing a woman standing through the window. I thought it was Ashlyn. As I got closer, I realized it was a woman and a man, both in suits with badges. They were there to tell me my baby had died.”
