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A message about drugs

Since our nephew passed away 2 weeks ago from a drug overdose, it seems like I’ve become more tuned in to drug problems. In this very short time, I have heard about 3 other people who have also died from drug overdoses. Two were friends of friends, and one was a local teen.

It’s amazing how we can all be connected to someone who is affected by drug addiction in some shape or form. I can’t even begin to tell you how badly it hurts to lose someone that way.

I’ve had relatives pass away from old age, and that was very sad. I even had a friend who died in a car crash in 1998. All of these things are very sad, but we somehow move on because we accept that their death was something that could not be controlled.

Dying as a result of drugs is something totally different. Sometimes we are at the mercy of our car. Sometimes we are at the mercy of our health. But we do not have to be at the mercy of drugs. We have a choice every day, and we do not have to put substances into our bodies that are extremely lethal and can kill us very quickly.

If I’m going by my webstats over the years, thousands of people have come and gone from this blog. I would be naive to believe every single one of my readers is clean and not taking things like cocaine, heroine, meth, or abusing prescription drugs. So I’d like to hope that while you’re here on my blog, I can convince you to make a different decision.

If you are addicted to drugs, PLEASE seek help. You have no idea how much you would be missed by your family and friends if you died today. You have no idea how many people will be left with unanswered questions. If you won’t do it for yourself, at least do it for the people who care.

And if you know someone who has a drug problem, and he or she won’t listen to you, PUSH HARDER! I know it causes friction, I know it is uncomfortable and controversial. But I wish I had pushed harder with our nephew. I wish I had forced him to go into rehab.

I do not like to tell adults what to do. I do not like to control people and get aggressive with them. But I would much rather have pissed off my nephew by being too overbearing, rather than seeing him in a casket, as I now have.

So PLEASE… if you can make a difference, DO IT.

Thu, May 31, 2007 @ 4:22 pm | Filed in Family, Life | Permalink

1 Comment

Hey buddy,
It seems like the deepest tragedy with drugs is the senseless loss in all the lives that touched the lost one.
I’m with you on this. Sometimes people need love with a little bit of “muscle” in it.

Posted by DEL on Fri, Jun 1, 2007 @ 1:18 am