As someone in long term recovery I just wanted to say that whole chasing the dragon thing isn’t really correct. It quickly stops being an urge to get high and becomes an urge to not be sick. And to remain numb from what you have to do to not be sick. That’s why I can not urge people enough to NOT START. No one takes that first pill wanting to be a junkie, you just turn around one day and realize you are. But take it from me. I was a real addicts addict. I’d addict a ham sandwich is given the opportunity. I sold my soul, and then sold souls I lied about having multiple times. For years I put myself and my loved ones throu hell. I lost everything. But one day I just got really f*ckin tired of being sick and tired and I went into rehab ( for like the 8th time) really wanting to be sober. And it was a lot of work. But here I am. 7 years later with a home, a husband, three beautiful girls. This passed week I had to go with the rest of the PTA board and was put on our business account?!?! Me! I’m still thinking about how crazy that is! We do recover!

I could remember several years ago fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my husband recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

I’ve been sober for 13 years. Started using my moms Dilaudid’s after she passed away to numb the sadness of her dying. That moved to getting anything I could to feed my body to prevent sickness. It got to me buying 100 mg Fentanyl patches, cutting them up and sucking on the pieces. Harm reduction saved my life. The addiction counseller cried upon my intake and told me, if you don’t stop, you’re 15 mth old will be an orphan 😢. The only thing that got me to stop is CAS threatening to take my kid….I was literally at the courthouse and they were planning on taking him and placing him with family. I somehow got the Caseworker to give me one last chance and I finally took my sobriety seriously. Opioids are the devil’s drug 👹 Harm reduction saves lives. I’ve been clean since Jan 2010, my son is now 15 ❤

Victoria became one of my first best friends whenever I moved to Watson/Denham Springs. I met her in elementary school at Live Oak and we continued staying best friends until the very end. A couple of months before she passed I allowed her to stay a week at my house so I knew she would be safe and away from all the drugs. One morning I woke up and she was gone and I never heard from her again until I got a phone call about her passing. She wanted so bad to be clean and sober not just for herself but for her son and for her family. I will say she fought very hard but the addiction was stronger. I love and miss Victoria so much and will forever cherish my times I got to have with her. I lost two of my childhood best friends in 2022 two months apart from each other from overdosing on fentanyl and it kills me bc now I don’t have my best friends anymore. Only thing that makes me happy is knowing they’re struggle is over with and that they’re both at peace and happy! I love y’all so much Meagan and Victoria! I will forever keep both of y’all’s memory alive and y’all both will forever stay in my heart until I get to see y’all again in heaven and what a joyous day that will be!! My two guardian angels 🩷💜😇😇

I remember Victoria as a young girl. Her & her younger brother used to come shop in the store I managed. Her baby brother wanted to be a cowboy & I managed a western store, so they were there often. I’m so sad to hear of her passing! She was such a sweet & beautiful girl. The entire family were just incredible people. Just goes to show you, addiction doesn’t care who you are, what your background is, your gender, race, economic status…..it doesn’t care if you come from a wonderful family. My heart goes out to this family. This hits so close to home on so many levels. Not just having known Victoria as a small child, but because I too have an adult daughter who has been in active addiction for over 10 years now. I know exactly what the mother meant when she said seeing her child’s name on the jail roster gave her peace. I too have been that parent. I keep preparing myself for the call this family got & I pray it never comes. My heart is with you all.

My little brother was 31 years old March 12 died of a fentanyl overdose 12 days before that are dad lost his battle with cancer now I'm sad at the house without them

This family did everything right. I have been clean and sober for 33 years now. If you keep enabling the addict they will never get help. You have to let them go and hope that they get in enough pain to want help. Bless your family. I am glad you have her son and he is loved and happy.

I lost my 23 year old granddaughter to fentanyl. It is so senseless. It is so sad to lose a young person to drugs.

Same thing I just lost my 34 year old daughter yesterday from overdose she left behind a one year old son she was found in a chair at the Hilton garden hotel I'm so heartbroken I talked to her in June and wished her happy birthday and she sounded like she was getting everything staightned out I had no clue she started using again 😢😢

My daughter who was a chemist with an Ivy League degree has left everything.15 years now.

Every fentanyl seller must get the same sentence as any other poison murderer.

I'm so very sorry you lost your daughter. Addiction is a family disease. It's horrific to go through. My son is a meth/heroin addict. He went to treatment and started using as soon as he was home. A year went by. He went to jail for 3 months and has never used again. That was almost 3 yrs ago. I know how lucky he is that he is able to stay clean. It's hard work. I feel blessed to still have him.

I just overdosed on Fentanyl two weeks ago. I was gone. This stuff is so strong. It's a crazy thing, razors edge between getting high, and death. Couple small hits, you lay back, relax, fall asleep and never wake up. I've been in and out of recovery for 12 years, never seen it this bad...we're losing an entire generation behind this stuff.

My son had a hip replacement at 14 and they would not give pain medication just ibuprofen.. I didn’t argue with them and when I look back I’m glad they didn’t..

I’m so sorry for the loss of this beautiful woman. Even those that survive don’t always come out on the good side. I’m a nurse in a nursing home and I’ve seen patients admitted because they survived an overdose, but the resulting brain damage left them permanently disabled and sometimes vegetative. It’s heartbreaking.

By not bailing her out you did a great job be proud of yourself mom tough love is the hardest I'm so proud of you much love from Canada xo

You and Texas Documentary is doing a great job bringing light to this problem!

I'm so, so sorry for your loss...I literally cried when you said, she said she was broken....😢 Addiction DOES NOT care who you are... May your family find peace. Thank you for sharing Victoria's story...🙏❤️🌹

I know your pain all to well..William 12/27/88 - 6/3/20..my heart is broken watching the Demon unfold and destroy families..Forever loved my child...

It's a painful time , when a parent loses a loving daughter at any time , may God help the family with the passing of their little angel may " VICTORIA " REST IN PEACE with our Lord JESUS CHRIST in HEAVEN 😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

She had good parents who did the right thing. I know we only get a piece of her story in a 12 min video. It doesn't look like she was enabled by family members. I can't even imagine how hard this must be 🖤

So sad my sister is going through the same thing . But with cocaine .

I am so sorry for your loss. Please accept my condolences for your loss of this beautiful daughter and vibrant member of your family.

I'm so sorry for your loss and I lost my son 14yrs ago last week and Drs just give a script and I need to say no more.

Mom don’t blame yourself u did right by keeping her in jail PRISON SAVED MY LIFE 16 years ago only because my grandmother/mom did the same SHOWED ME TOUGH LOVE I HAVE NOW BEEN CLEAN for years❤️ I hate your sweet girl never got a chance to experience life without the dragon😢 I PRAY YOU FIND comfort and peace❤

I didn't go to Rehab for Meth just stopped, did it for 10 years on Weekends only. When it came to Opiods, I don't think I was addicted, I suffer Chronic Pain due to Abuse & Trauma. I've not taken Pain Medication since June of 2020. I'm sorry for your loses, it hurt.

OMG! I’ve been through a child being addictions to drugs. It’s so had to do the right thing. You did that. It heartbreaking.

It’s coming upon the 1st year of her passing, I cant express my heartfelt condolences to this sweet family enough. To you mama, you did EVERYTHING YOU COULD DO. I promise. God bless you. I’m so very sorry.

🙏 R.I.P. VICTORIA 🙏 You gave your family the strength to tell your story and through this lives will be saved around the 🌎 world

My condolences to your family. As a mother who list a son Myself I understand your pain. Thank you for sharing your story to promote awareness.

Her mom showed her tough love, reminds me of my mom

I feel your pain. My son is an addict and started with marijuana then drinking and pills and heroin at 18. He most recently was using fentanyl he has been clean again now for nearly a month. This is the hardest thing a parent can ever go through. It is so so destructive to all family members and you feel totally helpless. Im so sorry your daughter is gone. I can not even imagine what you are feeling. I pray that everyone becomes aware of the dangers of all drugs and alcohol and to all the families that go through this. ♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏

This makes me sick, my only child’s father died of a fentanyl overdose at 32 (2022). I now feel the need to tell her how he really passed because it can be the same thing that takes her life. It’s a sick world we live in where even legal drugs can be laced with this bs!

As a parent of two young boys it scares the fuck out of me we just have to keep them alive our precious children😢

Man…I can’t kick this addiction. I know my fate is sealed but I’ve been to prison because of my addiction…I’ve tried all kinds of rehabs..nobody in my family uses so they don’t understand. Right now I’m barely even able to function normally..I can’t function without it as of now..the only thing it hasn’t taken YET is my life. The worst part is my family I’m super close to thinks I’m clean and all that..breaks my heart..I was in a bad car accident and they kept prescribing me crazy strong pain meds until I was physically sick without them. I didn’t even understand what my body was going through. Essentially they doomed me. I might as well just passed away with my best friend in our accident.

I’ve never been on drugs, never drank alcohol or smoked anything… so I can’t imagine what this is like. 😢

As an addict, I can say that JAIL is the worse place for someone in the throws of addiction to be. It's just a learning environment! You learn about new things out there, new ways to scam a buck, new ways to trick the system. We as a country need to learn that rehabilitation WORKS when those who receive it are READY! It's way to hard for those without insurance or means to pay, to get help. Truly sad. That's why there's always gonna be a market for great films like this. Praying for your family. Can't hurt ❤

Something is missing. She was in rehab but when she died mom looked to see if she was still in jail? No mention of any transition from rehab to jail.

BEST MOM WORDS EVER. ALL MOMS SHOULD HEAR THIS.

Jails need to have a discharge plan in place for opiate addicts upon release because they get out and end up using then overdosing. Jails also will not continuel maintenance medications for those already on them prior to incarceration making them high risk for overdosing. It is the government's and legal system's problem because it was introduced to many by the pharmaceutical companies. It only takes one week to start an addiction to opiates.

So sorry for the loss of your daughter 💔🙏 I loss my son to fentanyl 11-15-2023, I spent 20 years trying to save my son. It all started with oxycontin, a doctor prescribing him 120 pills a month, then roxys,he couldn't get the pulls anymore and turned to meth. I made him leave after finding needles in my house, I have grandchildren. 2 weeks later they found him in the median. I will prayer for y'all, it's a deep gut wretching pain that no family should ever have to go through.

It's crazy how strong this drug is and how it affects people, one dentist visit chanced and destroyed her life forever.

Oh my sweet lady, I feel your pain. I have been where you are. I am so sorry.😢

Its a worldwide epidemic. Life is short, as it is. Sad to see, so many young people perish from drugs Blessings and prayers to the family.

Ex addict here…”chasing the dragon’’ is inhaling heroin from a piece of tin foil heated with a lighter.

So sorry for your loss. ❤. Thank you for being brave enough to tell your story so that others can learn.

Mother to mother I'm so sorry. I have been sober since December 11th 2013 I was on heroin for 2 years before that and I pray that my children remember everything that I went through before I signed the guardianship over and went to prison for a whole year. I try and remind them now and their teenage years the things I have seen and I'm always make them watch these stories especially since they're into the Snapchat.. prayers

I appreciate this Mom and sister's honesty.❤

Our government needs to broadcast and place the same importance on deaths from fentanyl poisoning as they did for people dying from covid

So sorry for your loss😞 You have such a beautiful family❤Rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏

From the information contained in this short video piece, it sounds like this mother did every thing right.

My heart aches for this family, I would love to see siblings play a bigger part in these documentaries because a mom, dad, brother, sister, aunt, ECT reaction, there all so different but all so very important, it's not just the user's issue, it's the whole family's issue...I'm nine years sober and Amen Jesus but I wanted to say the part of "getting sober" that held me down the longest was the thoughts of what I did to not only me and my life but to everyone around me, everyone I wish would have said hey, what's up, are you ok, it hurts me to see how supportive alot of these family's were and now must spend the rest of there life wondering if they could have done more, my response is, you can lead a horse to water, you can't make it drink...you did what you could and then God stepped in because he couldn't watch the user suffer anymore either. 😢

I really can’t explain why this one hit me so hard but I’m praying for you all 💞

Thank You for sharing your story 🙏Absolutely Heartbreaking😰May God give you all Strength🙏

It breaks your heart when your kids are not well . And you feel helpless. Drugs and mental health, is both problems not addressed well in this decade

Wow for a mother to say her daughter is better off in prison is powerful.

What a wonderful mother! Wish there were more strong mother'slike you on this earth 🌎! God bless you and may he keep you and your family is my 🙏. Also; My deepest condolences to & your family.

so, so sorry for your loss...addiction is a vicious, horrible disease...it's especially hard to deal with, when the genesis of the addiction was caused by legitemite surgery...God bless...

Very sad story; prayers to the family. I looked up her story and oddly not mentioned it looks like her significant other passed away 3 months prior; I am sure that did not help her spiraling more out of control on her road to sobriety. Grief and heart break is a trigger for some and it looks like she was grieving for sure.

This is a sad situation around this country and i hope my kids never have to face any kind of addiction or engage in illicit drug use. I do just wonder why there's so much empathy in this fentanyl, and before that heroin, situation but there was NONE during the crisis in the 80s with crack? Does anyone have an answer for that? Im just curious.

I pray God gives this family peace that surpasses all understanding.

What a lovely daughter you raised

💔🙏🏼💔 Condolences to the family and friends. I'm sorry. 💔🙏🏼💔

I'm so sorry for your loss I have to say I'm in recovery the withdrawals I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy I send my condolences God bless 🙏

Condolences to your family ❤ my heart breaks for your loss 😢 poor Victoria it’s so hard battling addiction 😢 thank you for sharing your story/journey

Everything Victoria's mama is saying resonates SO SO deeply with me . I didn't have a supporting family during my addiction; I was left to raise my kids alone , to help myself, my family just couldn't cope . after the worst 6 years of my entire life I just did it, after meeting the most amazing and supportive (non drug using man) who never forced me ,but waited until I was ready. I went on the buvidal (subutex) shot in September 2021 and have been clean ever since. We do recover. Sending thoughts and prayers to Victoria's family, In particular her Mama (who looks SO like her😮) and who did everything right , absolutely EVERYTHING Her son ,her daddy and her amazing sister too . You all did everything right, I hope that you are reading this ❤❤

My sympathy goes out to you and your family 🙏

My sister is 8 years clean and I can’t be more prouder of her. Thank God her sobriety came just before fentanyl was a thing or I am sure she would not have been here any longer. I lots another sister 28 years ago to an overdose and even that didn’t scare my sober sister from using herself. Addictive drug disorder is a family trait passed down generations to generations. If you have any addictive disorder please get help it’s not a moral or willpower failure it’s a disease a treatable disease

I felt this mothers pain, as a mother of 2 addict sons. Both mine are in recovery, my youngest is 24 and has been sober for 2 years, and my oldest is 28 and has been sober for 1 year. I dont wish this on any parent. We've looked for my sons body on the side of the road for 2 days, hes been stabbed multiple times, totaled 4 cars, the list goes on, and I believe every parent has went through this. The struggle for an addict to become clean is soo hard, they have the addiction their fighting everyday, along with the mental health issues, the remorse they put them selves thru and there loved ones. I feel for this momma! Your daughter sounded like a beautiful soul, and she is not in pain anymore.

I’m watching this on her birthday. Happy heavenly birthday Victoria. 🙏🏻

Very powerful and good advice. I’m sorry for the loss of your daughter

God rest the poor addicts ❤+God bless their families ❤🙏🩵

Thank you so much for candidly sharing your story. What you are doing will help so many people. The pain is gone, and she will see you again.

As a father of two teenage daughters and a former addict this scares the hell out of me. My heart hurts so bad for these parents.

How is that that doctors are still prescribing opioids to teenagers, I don't understand that. Well, that is very strange for me since I am from a different country.

I already saw 1000 parallels with your sweet daughter and myself. Then you said she was eating her cereal and it broke me. Its me. Shes me and im her. Im so sorry mamma. She deserved the world. Im so grateful every single day for my sobriety.

I used to be a herion addict but I got clean.i have been clean for 15 years. Jesus saved me but now I am dealing with cirrhosis of the liver form using a dirty needle.i lost both my brothers to overdoses in motel rooms.

Many of us patents are going through this.. extremely painful financially devastating. Stay strong for their babies left behind.

I live in Watson/Denham Springs, since I was 19yrs old, I'm 46 now. I watched our sweet little town go down the drain in what seemed like no time at all. I am from Pride, La. At 19, I met a man that introduced me to crack, it took me 4yrs to clean myself up. My brother has been addicted to H and pain pills since he was a teenager, he is 9yrs younger than me. So, please believe me when I say, I see you, and I hear you. I have never been to a "rehab" I got clean on my own. We lost my stepson to a fent. O.D. 11-21-21. I just lost my best friend to a fent. O.D. on 12-11-23. I never even knew she was using again. My heart aches from the loss. How did i not see it!!!!! I failed her, and now i have to walk this earth without her for the rest of my days. This town, this parish (Livingston) I don't recognize anymore. I am so sorry for the loss of your daughter. They say it gets easier, but that is a lie.

Tragic, that she had to fight and lose. I am so sorry for your loss.

Always so so sad. 17 months sober from opiates today thank God🙏🏻❤️RIP to those that weren’t able to recover and beat their demons/addiction in time before it was too late tragically.

Thank you for sharing your story. I'm so sorry yall lost Victoria. I lost my daughter. This drug is the most horrific nightmare for our family's then to loose our children to it. It's not right. I hope it was ok I forwarded this to a few sites I'm on about us loosing our children family members etc on Facebook. I pray that maybe Victoria's story will save a soul and a family or many. You all are so brave to do this to show your story and for me to know I'm not alone in this pain I can't even describe. I miss my daughter every second of everyday a part of me died that day too she's the mist amazing living young lady and I am so lucky she chose me to be her ma. I stood by her everyday and I was the one who found my precious child the horriable day the day my whole world stopped totally. I can't sleep I see how I found her and to add to it her bf placed her body on her bed staged the whole scene in how I would find her placing fentayl all around her in bags took all her jewerly her diaries write on her wall. We know he was part of her death no one will listen she seamed just anouther fenny od that's it's. All the evidence everything we told the police after this horrific day totally ignored. I mean totally. No one cares and he's free . I wish I could bring back all our children . My heart aches for your family and again I'm so so sorry. Fr26 Kenzie Brown ma God bless you and thank you for this I'm so sorry for all you are going through. Just remember she didn't want this and she's with you all the time and so lives you all. God bless your family

Addiction is a killer and it's sad 😢how this hit so close to home I'm very sorry for your loss my condolences

May she RIP my prayers to you and your family. My husband overdosed. He was clean for 13 years. I miss him so much. It only takes 1 time it's horrific. Addiction effects everyone. I'm sober almost 2 years thank God. God Bless you all ❤❤❤

I have multiple family members in addiction to opiates, including my bio mom, and I don’t know about anyone else but eventually I got to a point where I got hardened to most of the world around me. It used to hurt me to see my bio mother or a cousin on the street high or dope sick, but now I just keep on walking. It makes me sad for these people because their whole family got blown up and for what? A drug? Like you love that person so much, and even that can’t help them.

I am so sorry for your loss

As a person who was in active addiction for 15 years and is now on my 5th year of recovery, I found different and worse levels (thinking it was better at the time). Don't ever tell someone they can only get so high one time. It's a lie.

To the mother, you should’ve brought her home. Love covers a multitude of sin. Just because she tried something and liked it, there are millions of people who die every day from Fentanyl addiction. I’m an addict myself and my mom has gone through this journey with me. She always said that I needed to clean up my act pretty much every single time I went to see her. Eventually God showed her to love me anyway, no matter what I do. I’m 51 years old so I told her she wasn’t going to get me off drugs because I’m not 16 anymore, I’m a grown woman. I know exactly what I’m doing. Nowadays she tells me that it doesn’t matter anymore if I still get high, she loves me.

Lost two brothers and a dad to fentanyl in a two year period destroyed my family

Powerful story, may you find peace

I know exactly how you feel. This is the truth 🙏🏾

The war on drugs is not going to end as long as people love money more then life of another person. The drug street pharmacist or the legal pharmacist.

I’m so thankful I’ve been able to remain clean from opioids since 2016. The way I was living back then + how bad Fentanyl is now… I’d absolutely have been dead. Such a heartbreaking reality ❤

I watched some videos regarding Fentanyl addiction with people in cities around the world. Governments are fully responsible. Those who have become addicted to Fentanyl use, have also been let down by their Governments.

I’m so very sorry for your loss ❤ Love and Light ❤

Why tf would you let her leave walking in the rain. Ye just put her out in the streets so she can immediately think about getting more drugs. I notice a lot of these od victims start off with some kinda surgery with an opioid prescription.

I’m so sorry praying 🙏🏽

This is so heart breaking. So sorry for your loss.

I’m so lucky I got ahold of myself before it completely destroyed myself and my family I was prescribed by a doctor of back surgery never informed or warned so the first time I got door sick I literally went to the hospital honking flu as it was for weeks once I realized and did my research I flushed all my prescriptions it was horrific I couldn’t sleep eat was in horrible pain for weeks almost months but got through it the doctor wanted me to wean off and I told him fu and walked out at that point I’d already went five days and refused to restart. I thank God my husband and family everyday. Fent is satan it’s destroying my community our fellow brothers and sisters and those who push it deserve the death penalty

Its so difficult seeing someone in the grip of addiction especially females as they are risk of exploitation.if you see an homless addict in the street dont walk the other way just a conversation can make all the difference.addiction is a disease nobody chooses class A addiction im very sorry for your loss may she be at peace now 😢😢