Seven years ago my son passed away while struggling with the cunning, baffling, powerful disease of “addiction” or as I would rather have it referred to S.U.D. (Substance Use Disorder). No autopsy was performed; the coroner’s report listed “undetermined causes” as manner of death.
This means he is not even counted in the statistics!
Jeff was more than his disease: He had dreams and goals, which were beyond his reach once his addiction took hold of him. Society (as in medical doctors) contributed to this disease when prescribing addictive painkillers after a serious car accident. Sadly, once addiction took control, there was little or no help available to fight his battle.
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