The following was copied from a new just developing website .. www.brentshapiro.org.... I watched a show late last night and his father, Robert sharpiro ( one of the OJ lawyers) and mother was on and talked about fighting addiction. It was very sad.
Please read the following and ponder it... I am not posting this to start a war.. I really dont wish any responses... it is just another example of how alcohol can lower your resolve to not use and cause a fatel relapse...
The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness was founded upon the death of Brent Shapiro, a twenty-five-year-old USC senior. Brent was a man with a large and loving heart who was also a Dean's List student and an athlete, raised in a good home with two loving parents and a supporting younger brother. He was afflicted with the disease of alcohol dependency. After eighteen months of sobriety, he thought he could experiment with alcohol. He drank at a party and took a half of a tab of Ecstasy, then he went into a coma and was buried a day and a half later.
If this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.
The Brent Shapiro Foundation has three purposes. The first is to raise awareness of the disease, both for children and their parents. The second is to support new and extensive research, in the hopes of identifying a genetic basis for this disease and developing methods of early identification, prevention and treatment. Finally, the Brent Shapiro Foundation hopes to take away the stigma of this disease by creating honest discussions around the country, and educating people that this disease should be treated no differently than any other. It is our belief that the solution, the answer, and the possible cure lies in a new and different approach.
The rest of the story is that he told someone that he was going to take the drug and no one stoped him.... before this he was clean for over 8 months... and was attending meetings and was engaged.. doing well by all accounts. Clean from drugs... His parents and girlfriend related that he stated in July ( he OD on Oct 10) that he was an addict not an alcoholic... this was his fatel revelation... he didnt share this with his drug counselor....
anyway.. this is just one more reason why I have my opinion about drinking .... I know others do not share my opinion and that has to be ok... it is only out of love and concern that I post this.... truely it is...
The other day what there was a mix up one the board about Browndog and thinking that it was 'our' harry that had OD'd....I dont mind telling you that I was shaken at first until it was cleared up... I dont want to lose ANYONE.. on this site from this disease .. and I will not hold back my message ... I dont want to read that someone had died and sit here wondering if only I had said something... I only wish I was a better communicater and that it would come off better.... but.. I am just me and on here I lack the finess that some others possess that I dont lack face to face.... I have offer a hug and a touch in person that I cant offer here... people can see my eyes in person... and here my voice... that just isnt possible here... that is the disadvantage of this forum... but that being said... I still feel that all danger need to be told... all experiences shared even to save just one....
thanks for letting me share this this morning.......
Please lets not start this mornign off with a war.. just wanted to share this....
God bless the addicts that have found recovery and the ones that will die today with this disease
Teresa
lol..... tooo funny.... got that sense of humor going today huh?....lol
teresa
teresa
LMAO
but on the serious note of this,
I am going to have my 17 yo read this post...he went to a party when I was out of town this last week end, and got wasted on god knows, he doesn't even remember..I just know my heart sank when I got a call from him at 5 am saying he was lost and confused and cold and just wanted to go home. He was walking the streets in a very bad part of a town north of where we live..and I was 2 hours away and all I could do was pray and hope all was gonna be fine till his dad found him...I know it scared him to..hopefully into thinking about what he does and takes...and who he hangs with..
Whats sad is it brought back times of when I was so messed up and scared, it breaks my heart knowing he is only 17 and feeling like that..like we say to him..Wake up call.you are not indestructable
but on the serious note of this,
I am going to have my 17 yo read this post...he went to a party when I was out of town this last week end, and got wasted on god knows, he doesn't even remember..I just know my heart sank when I got a call from him at 5 am saying he was lost and confused and cold and just wanted to go home. He was walking the streets in a very bad part of a town north of where we live..and I was 2 hours away and all I could do was pray and hope all was gonna be fine till his dad found him...I know it scared him to..hopefully into thinking about what he does and takes...and who he hangs with..
Whats sad is it brought back times of when I was so messed up and scared, it breaks my heart knowing he is only 17 and feeling like that..like we say to him..Wake up call.you are not indestructable
It's good info Teresa! I love to get information here...the article Sammy posted last night...what Tim has posted about your brain on opiates, etc. It's all good!
Thanks for sharing that article.
Jim
Thanks for sharing that article.
Jim
Thanks for sharing that and a piece of your heart Teresa.
If you are an addict and you drink, chances are pretty good that drinking will lead to relapse. Not for everyone, but a good majority of the population.
Cowgirl
If you are an addict and you drink, chances are pretty good that drinking will lead to relapse. Not for everyone, but a good majority of the population.
Cowgirl
Alcohol would lead me to do about anything. I cannot tell you how many times I mixed a alcohol with the rec drugs I used. Such a horrific idea now looking back. I sure kept my guardian angel busy. Good points to ponder Teresa.
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