We see on Facebook and other social medias all of the time people yelling this and that about drug addiction, and whether it's a mental illness or not, about narcan and whether it's a good or bad effect on addiction. Which ever way you feel about addiction to drugs, narcan, and other things pertaining to this epidemic think of the moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, friends, and other family members of loved one who lost their life to addiction.
Dear person who just doesn't understand,
How could you? You spout out this and that about how those addicted to drugs are selfish, and know what they're doing, and can stop when they really want to. You're right to a degree. Those addicted to drugs are selfish, they do know that what they are doing is wrong, and they can try to stop when they're ready to ask for help.
Many of you, maybe not all, but many of you who say these things have probably never lost someone near and dear to you to drug addiction. Before I lost my loved one to drug addiction I was the same way that you are. I said that people on drugs were stupid, selfish, and gross. I said these things because I was blinded.
In schools they teach you how terrible drugs are, and that sets us up not to look into the mental part of addiction. So, we have these negative associations about drugs and it's addicts. I'm not a doctor, and I still don't understand everything there is about addiction, but after losing some one very near and dear to my heart I understood it a little more.
I understand that these people are suffering. In my heart I don't believe that my loved wanted to go down that road. Yes, the first time someone tries a drug it's a choice, but after that it becomes an addiction. An ugly monster who has a hard time letting go of it's victims.
To you who just doesn't understand, know that when you say those addicted to drugs are losers or stupid you're calling many, many peoples loved ones losers and stupid. Know that when we read these things or hear these things we cry a little on the inside, because we know our loved one wasn't a loser and wasn't stupid.
Know that when you say those addicted to drugs don't deserve narcan because it was a choice they made, know that you're saying someones loved one doesn't deserve another chance at life. Know that for those of us who have lost loved ones to drug addiction, know that we wished everyday after they died that it wouldn't have been too late for narcan.
And know that when you say any thing terrible about those addicted to drugs, know that you make the ache in our hearts hurt just as much as it did the day we lost them.
