As many of you are aware my beautiful son Chris lost his battle of addiction March 25 .....For over 10 years we battled addiction and sadly we lost our son to the war....I have dealt with many emotions over the last few weeks ....There is a message I want to send to loved ones of those addicted. Whether your a sister brother mother father friend girl friend boy friend ....all must be on board.....The code of silence must stop immediately. ....it is this silence and cover up that could possibly be deadly....let me explain....Chris had been staying with a family he had known for years ....the young mother has muscular dystrophy and she has a young child my son has known since birth ...Chris absolutely adored this child....Chris was signed into school to begin in August and had hoped to get a job and be local to the school.Chris had his license suspended and revoked ....I live about 30 miles from the school so he felt being closer be easier....Things seemed to be going well....The people he was staying with were well aware of Christophers situation as I said we have all known each other for years an extended family so to say....They had my phone number as I said if you see anything off call me....well it has come out that Chris wanted a fentanyl patch and was told no....He kept asking and was told the same response no....I am not placing responsibility on no one but Chris let's understand that....that is not my message ...my message here is I wish I would've been told that he was doing that....I would've driven down there and had Chris come with me....the red flag was raised ....but the one that saw it raised kept it silent until it was to late....please you are not helping the addict or the family with this code of silence....we cannot help them if we are kept in the dark if you see something.....please if you see something please say something....it's a possibility if we had been aware of this we could've intervened before his overdose.
Dear Christopher's Mom,
I am so sorry for your loss. It is my worst fear as a mother of a heroin addict. Still, I can't imagine your heart-shattering pain at this time. You are in my prayers. You are right about the silence. We all need to bring things into the light. Hopefully they will get better
I am so sorry for your loss. It is my worst fear as a mother of a heroin addict. Still, I can't imagine your heart-shattering pain at this time. You are in my prayers. You are right about the silence. We all need to bring things into the light. Hopefully they will get better
