So you thought it wouldn't happen to your family...guess again
I hear this phrase occasionally from people (I never thought this would happen to our family) and I've thought it to myself a time or two, but it's another thing entirely to lose a family member to an opioid overdose. This is something that more and more people are experiencing and it's only getting worse with the illegal drug market being flooded with fentanyl laced heroin. Heroin, a word I never would have associated with my brother. His official cause of death is accidental overdose, but we may never know if it was intentional. The toxicology listed 3 different variations of fentanyl, heroin and meth. My brother had told my stepdad that he knew to stay away from fentanyl and that it scared him, but he mistakenly trusted the one person he got it from to not give him tainted heroin and he ended up paying for that mistake with his life. He did know the risks though and every time he injected heroin into his vein it was like he was playing Russian Roulette, except the odds w...