re: Honest obituary of 20 year old dying from heroin

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am I the resident something ?

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You're the resident landscaper.

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Where he's getting mad at the "woe is addiction" whitey gets with heroin.

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he has a good point. a broken clock is right twice a day.

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It isn't the stigma the resident racist was going after.

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Fortunately, we are a much more "enlightened" as a society now that Trump is President.

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Rouge

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so edgy

Hey owl

Maybe had Kevin Boudreauxs drug ring been busted sooner this tragedy may have never happened.

Poor child R.I.P.

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<----17 years sober...


...so there's that...

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huge congrats to you brother

I was 19 yrs young when I checked myself into treatment on 12-27-87

29+ yrs living 1 day at a time

edit: just finished reading the entire thread

kudos to Old South, SC lib, Vengeance, and others who are sober today. Even after being sober for close to 3 decades, I still get an occasional urge to get Fk'd up. Certain places in NOLA and BR make me feel uneasy since that's where I used, hit rock bottom, and buried several friends who OD'd.

I started using in the 8th grade. My drug of choice was anything that altered my mind and got me high as a kite: weed, quaaludes, valium, shrooms, liquid LSD, window pane, blotter, freebase (before it was called crack), XTC, dilaudid, xanax, soma, etc.... I didn't discriminate when it came to using and if you had drugs I was your friend. As with most addicts, getting high became more important than family, school, work, and girlfriends. I lied, cheated, and stole to get my fix. Nothing I'm proud of, as I wouldn't change my past since it made me a much better person today.

I should have died dozens of times, just thankful the man upstairs had an alternative plan for me.

addiction can be a disease. once someone gets on the needle, they want that high, the fix, whatever you want to call it. if you have not been exposed to the damage it can do; then, you, literally, have no idea. i used to think the same way. but, after four years of dealing with my son on this issue. well, i have learned a lot. i am attempting to start a program for parents, greandparents, interested individuals, who need to understand how this can impact us all. i attempted on here once and it was, as you can imagine, a cluster of smart arse responses. for those who have posted recovery stories-please reach out. i would like to help make a difference. i was completely ignorant to the impact heroin, meth can have. yes, my email is ironic. your drug rep at gmai...

Lets build the wall and put the smack down on Mexico. Lets publicly execute drug dealers small and large like the Chinese did.