My heart goes out to you. RIP daughter and peace to you too.

So sorry for your loss 😢

I am so sorry for your loss.🤍🙏

I'm so sorry that you found your daughter that way. 💔

I'm so very sorry for your loss.

i felt it too.

The end destroyed me 😭😭

That hit me like a baseball bat

I feel more sorry than words can say for this woman, but…. I still don’t think she has accepted that there was so much more wrong with her sons than drug use alone. It doesn’t sound as of the deep seated issues causing the substance abuse were ever addressed. Requiring alcohol to face middle school is not normal. The fact that she couldn’t tell her son was perpetually drunk is also concerning. As a teenager, I experienced sudden, inexplicable extreme abdominal pains. After months of tests, doctors had no idea what the problem was. One of the doctors spoke to my mother privately and asked if I could be experimenting with drugs. My mother laughed because she knew me inside and out and knew that wasn’t the problem. We later figured out that I had probably been experiencing abdominal migraines, as I have had croton the age of 10. My cousin’s son was diagnosed with abdominal migraines and we put the pieces together. My point though, is my parents not only knew my brother and me, but our friends as well. If I was coming home black out drunk, no one would have been ok with that. They would have been incredibly concerned the first time and would have fought to make sure we never needed to numb ourselves that way again. My heart breaks for this woman and I think she experienced a perfect storm of genetic predisposition mixed with at times, willful denial.

@@Catmom-gl5ntthe other brother started the same road as his brother because he passed away, prior he didn’t do anything. Which especially for twins isn’t abnormal, it’s already painful to lose your sibling, as a twin it’s even harder. The idea that there HAS to be a root to everything, or why some people drink and other don’t, doesn’t necessarily mean there are problems within the family. There still IS a lot to learn about addiction. But the idea it’s just the bottom of the barrel is long gone and why these series. It can happen with literally EVERYONE. Her son just gave an excuse for his drinking. Not every anxious person will drink. Not every person who drinks in childhood will die of OD. My neighbor was 50 when she became addicted, due to getting pain meds. And it’s been a long road since. As long as we treat addiction as if it only happens to damaged or low IQ, or poor people, it will never get solved. It again can happen to anyone

I agree

@@reginahaley3723 Agree 💯

@@reginahaley3723 💯 Agree

I totally agree!

Some stories affect us differently. I'm proud of you for being sober. ❤ Keep it going!

I've yet to watch one of these videos without crying every single time. I also watch them to stay clean as I can't let my parents lose another child. They already lost my 2 older brothers too young. I kicked fent and heroin over 2 years ago and haven't touched it since. I simply don't want to die and more importantly don't want my parents to lose another kid. They had 4 boys and no daughters. Now they only have two sons. Me and my younger brother, if they lost just one more of us I think they would die of heartbreak. At least my mom probably would based on how hard it's been on her. I feel guilty every single day that i even used fentanyl for the short time period that I did (6 months max daily use) I could have and should have died MANY dif times. Watching these videos just solidifies me into not relapsing or even dabbling with ANY drug on the street. I won't even experiment with coke or meth anymore because it can be laced. Same goes for Xanax, I'll only take benzos if im prescribed them which isnt nearly enough but worth not getting fent. I overdosed one time on a xanax bar and it made me blackout stop breathing and had to be narcanned multiple times in hospital till i woke up at home on my couch the next with zero recollection of the overdose or hospital trip. Nothing. Just remembering popping the bar and thinking wow it tastes awfully bitter so it must be good shit (had loads of fake bunk bars before with nothing in them but chalk) so i was glad i didnt get ripped. I had some left after the OD and I tested em with a fentanyl strip. They all came back positive for fentanyl. One red line. I couldn't believe it. This was back in 2018. Why they would lace a supposed BENZO with a deadly dose of an opioid when they aren't even the same drug I thought. Obviously to kill people on purpose which is sickening. You won't get repeat customers if their dead off the first $4 fentanyl bar.

@merk.9285 Congratulations on your 2 years of sobriety! You're 💯 correct in saying that your poor parents can not lose anymore sons. Use whatever you can to keep your sobriety. I think not wanting to die is a damn good reason. You already beat the reaper once. Please don't do that again. We're all still glad you're here! ❤️‍🩹👍

Congratulations to you!!! Keep pushing!!!

Congrats on your sobriety ❤ Keep up the hard work

Sadly, it's a thankless job.

We gotta find our own peace sometimes. Cant always connect our happiness with the kids happiness because if they are falling to pieces, you give your best support and then find your own joy.

This poor mother had to deal with all the suffering times 2. I can't imagine.

I don't think of motherhood as thankless at all. ​Though sad, this mother got to bring two beautiful lives into this world, and though their time on earth ended too soon, she can find solace in the time and fond memories they shared in this life. My adult children express their gratitude and thankfulness to me very often and I am blessed to see the lives they've built for themselves. That's all the thanks we should need. She'll see her boys again 😊. @hunnydoo7737

I would not say thankless. It’s just our kids don’t understand our feelings, we so desperately want them to be happy and it’s very hard to see them struggle. Every child will struggle, and usually grows out of it. Then when they become parents they begin to understand someone is dependent and how you want to love and protect your child and it’s beautiful but also painful. Let people be the ages they are. They will catch up

yeah really quite sinister actually.

I gasped. But this is the state of healthcare in the US. I still can't get over the rehab place not doing the paperwork. That kid was a heroine addict, its not something to toy with and if he wanted help, you give it to him.

She should have sued that rehab!

I hope so..unbelievable

The ultimate slap in the face just infuriating! Ppl are so selfish your employees have more paperwork so they wont accept a patient absolutely disgusting actually illegal id think you cant get government funds and refuse to see folks as far as i know.

Sorry for the loud of your sweet baby. ❤

I’m sorry for your loss

I’m so sorry. How awful that must have been.

So very sorry for your loss. My dear friend lost her son the same way.

I’m so sorry your loss

so sorry for your sisters loss of her two sons bless you both ❤❤

So sorry for your loss 😢

Easily avoided. Don’t take pills from unlicensed, unqualified people on the streets. Why complicate it? These Fentanyl deaths will not stop, because too many people refuse to accept that these laced pills were not ingested accidentally. It’s tragic and it’s senseless. Sick individuals are poisoning pills as a form of entertainment and it’s just a vicious cycle and that includes the cycle feeding the videos to the KZfaq masses. Sickening what society finds acceptable today.

If only life were so black and white.

AMEN !

Hugs. Me either 💔

😔😢🙏🙏

I’m sorry for your loss.

You got this mama!!! you will make it through Amen!!! 👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤎

💙🙏🏼👊🏽

Samers I quit the pills But when they dad died cause of the same thing I relapsed I pray every night Please god I can't leave my son's behind I was clean off morphine pills But relapsed These videos I am quiting Getting the help

​@mandy7131 you got this! ❤️❤️

This is so touching and you are so brave ❤️

And yet we live in cultures where men carry family name… something is upside down with him we live.

Me too

Nobody cared then.

'A war ​' on anything is doomed to failure.@@shazondiabailey9013

Back in earlier decades, kids took drugs to party, get high. Now they are self medicating for their mental health. Tragic.

The war is against now they killing us china,Mexico. While we dump money in Ukraine

Thank you Biden!

i agree...i feel like if i say anything to show support or acknowledge its just gunna be completely insufficient.

pain medication dont half to be a bad thing there are millions of people that take there medication how you are suppost to take it and would not have any quality of life without it......

Sorry for your loss😢

@@MairelysPalacios thank you 💓

So sorry 😢

I am sooo sorry for your loss. May Ryan and Matt Rest in Peace. I am so moved that you are speaking out about this. You are extremely courageous and brave

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@@TexasPictures please come to Virginia!

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I agree but it seems the medical system are not equipped or don’t want to deal with this pandemic addiction going on nationwide.

3 years apart

They never fail to make me cry it seems.

God bless you and help heal all your people!