Tag: Heroin

"That’s what people don’t understand about this drug. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve done it, all it takes is that ONE time, and your life is over."

"Kids are DYING, and people are too afraid to be honest even in obituaries...Please use my son’s story. Please help me warn parents this is out there. Please, please, please. It’s all I can do now."

"Maybe we should all remember, whatever state they’re in today, there is a mom somewhere, with knees bleeding from prayers, that just wants her baby back."

"It led me to sleeping on her grave so she didn’t have to be alone, contemplating suicide so I could hold her hand on her way to heaven."

I knew Matt loved me and I assumed that I could “love him through it.” But unfortunately, love is not the antidote to addiction.

"That one last high led me to a room, brain in a fog, staring at caskets trying to decide which one my little girl should be buried in. That one last high led to writing an obituary, planning a funeral and a house full of flowers from grieving friends and family."

"You can’t imagine how I’ve suffered because frankly, there are no words to describe the depth and darkness of my nightmare."

"If your son is addicted to heroin, he doesn’t suddenly become “not” your son. He’s not an addict. He’s your son who has a problem with addiction."