News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.’s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people
If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don’t think
You knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk
We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We’ve got five years, that’s all we’ve got
Savannah graduated in 2013…and died in 2018. I was not counting the days. Although with addiction, your heart races with every phone call, from anyone, ever. It’s a crazy ghost world you live in. There just shouldn’t be such a shush on the help these kids can receive. If you have diabetes or thyroid issues you can get help for your disease. This is a disease that you can see symptoms of, and should be able to get help for.
I believe there is a correlation with heroin overdoses and kids aged 18-24.
“Heroin Overdose Deaths in Colorado From 2000-2015, there were 10,552 drug overdose deaths among Colorado residents with age-adjusted rates rising almost every year. In nearly every year, Colorado’s rate of drug overdose was significantly higher than the national rate. Opioid-related overdoses, which comprise a significant proportion of total drug overdose deaths, tripled over the 15-year time period in Colorado. Heroin-related overdose deaths are a subset of total drug poisoning deaths; although these rates in Colorado have tripled from 2010-2015, there are signs to suggest that heroin overdose death rates have since stabilized. The 2014 and 2015 rates were not significantly different from one another.”
This quote above is from: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/PW_ISVP_PDO_Heroin-in-Colorado-2017.pdf
‘Little is known about the characteristics that may predispose an individual to being at risk for fatal overdose from prescription opioids.’
– another sad fact. One I would like to change.
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“Winder recalls a situation in which he responded to a report of a woman overdosing, slumped over near an I-15 onramp in Midvale. “ —— this is where my daughter lived for seven months, got drugs and died on April 17th.
But in a review of compiling data for heroin related deaths, they only speak to residents of the state where the death occurred, when so many kids go out of state for rehab, this seems like an impossible number to chase. Or kids that have run away? How is this being counted?
“Across the country, drug overdose death rates increased by 21.5 percent, with prescription opioid-related deaths rising 10.6 percent and heroin-related deaths rising 19.5 percent. The starkest increase was deaths from synthetic opioids, which more than doubled from 2015 to 2016.
From 2015 to 2016, some of the biggest increases in opioid deaths were seen in men ages 15 to 24 (36.7 percent) and in black people (56.1 percent). Young people between ages 25 and 34 were among the hardest hit, with a 33.5 percent increase in deaths. And double the number of men died from overdoses in 2016 than women (27,642 men and 13,079 women).”
“What causes addiction? That’s a question that floats around at Next Level Recovery. And it’s a question that can truly only be answered individually.
Not all addictions are the same and the same can be said about what fuels an individual’s addiction. It’s partially the reason why solutions to the addiction problem is so vexing.
“Sometimes people are looking to really escape painful emotions, a lot of people have trauma going on that they’re trying to escape the memory of it or those painful feelings that go along with the trauma. A lot of people start out with curiosity,” Beckstrand said.’
This is where I’d like to reach out, and also through legislation and available help to addicts. I’d like there to be more info and thus more help.
Colorado beats out Utah in deaths to heroin overdose.
Where are our kids supposed to go?