#fentanylkills

[mygrievingblog]

I feel like I lost two people that day. The person you used to be, and the person that died in front of me.

[beckiwilson]

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[lostsearchdiscoverlost]

Are we really first world?

Going on 6 months without being able to fill my prescriptions because of rigid blanketed policies that only punish the innocent, do nothing to curtail addiction, and only further drive people into addiction with unregulated street medication. Why is #fentanylkilling so many? Maybe because people who don’t have any quality testing requirements are taking advantage of those desperate because of inability to get what they need through the safe channels that used to be available. #IHateItHere

[bluerosezen-blog]

Still working out the logistics, so these aren’t in the shop yet. Right now I’m at the “should I” phase.

Ever since my youngest son died from fentanyl poisoning I’ve been looking for somewhere to put my anger and grief; something to do with it besides wallow in my pain. For the first few months after his overdose in February of 2017, I learned everything I could about addiction, overdose, the Opioid epidemic, and fentanyl. I learned how addiction changes brain chemistry, I learned about people mixing fentanyl analogs with heroin, cocaine and pills. I met other grieving parents who lost their children to addiction. I learned everything I could but none of it eased the pain of losing my 27 year old son. I realized nothing ever would, so I looked to channel it. I wrote letters and signed petitions; joined groups of moms trying to keep other mothers from joining our ranks. That only caused more frustration as I felt our voices fell on deaf ears. And fed my anger as I came across people who blamed the addict, blamed my son, rather than the disease. My son was trying to beat the addiction. He was in withdrawal. He relapsed and addiction won the war, but still people said it was his own “choice”. So I stepped back and decided to regroup.

I found established groups who had been fighting this fight for a long time. Groups like Harm Reduction and Heroin Support. Groups who not only lobby the government for changes in how we battle addiction, but who also go out into the streets to help the addicts. Groups that give out clean needles, recovery information, fentanyl test strips and Narcan. Groups that offer support to addicts in recovery and their families and also offer support to grieving families like mine. I found these groups and began helping any way I could, even if it just meant sharing information and making financial donations.

Which leads to the dragonflies.

Purple because that is the color for overdose awareness. Dragonflies because there are beautiful legends associated with the delicate creatures and the souls of our loved ones. I make and sell jewelry. After my son’s death I lost my motivation. But my son was all about business and making a buck and was on me about being more serious about my “hobby”. In the past 6 months I’ve found my motivation again. I’ve become more serious about creating jewelry. I’ve taken all the advice he’d given me and finally put it to work. In his honor, in his memory, to make him proud instead of screaming to the heavens because he’s gone.

My plan is to sell the purple dragonflies in my shop and at the live markets I do. To raise awareness and to donate 30% of the proceeds to one of the groups I follow. I have to work out how much I should charge so that I can pay for supplies and still make a donation that counts. If I decide to do this, the dragonflies will probably be in my shop after the holidays are done.

[theacidvats]

Never thought of it that way... seriously though, this shit is evil. #fentanyl #fentanylkills #fentanylcrisis #mkultra #conspiracytheory #conspiracy #tinfoilhat

[t-shirt-share-design]

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[bluerosezen-blog]

Tiny Green Lava Rock Beads with Silver Tone Marijuana Leafs.

The green lava rock looks like a tiny bud, with the familiar leaf hanging below. Genuine lava rock also works as an essential oil diffuser. Just add a drop of your favorite oil.

In February of 2017 my youngest son relapsed. That relapse was fatal since the heroin he bought was mixed with furanyl-fentanly, one of the many fentanyl analogs killing so many. My son was 27 years old, father of an 8 year old son. In the  journal that we found after my son’s death, we read how he knew 2017 was going to suck as he went through withdrawal and tried to overcome his addiction. He was determined to beat it though and come into 2018 like a star. Addiction said otherwise and a dealer who had no scruples helped addiction along.

These earrings are in memory of my son who, for years, advocated for the legalization of marijuana. I was one of those die hard anti-drug parents, but he proved to me, with well researched logic, that marijuana was actually beneficial, if used responsibly. There is new research now that shows that marijuana can actually help with those going through opioid addiction.

But I didn’t just make these earrings to look cool or to say, “hey, I have a dead child who smoked weed”. I donate 10% of every sale of these earrings to a group called NC Harm Reduction. 

" North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC) is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to the implementation of harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina and throughout the American South. NCHRC engages in grassroots advocacy, resource and policy development, coalition building, and direct services for people impacted by drug use, incarceration, sex work, overdose, gender, HIV and hepatitis and first responders. “ - from the website.

The people who make up this amazing group are out there on the streets reaching out to those suffering from addiction. They offer food, clean syringes, fentanyl test kits, to make sure the stuff they’re buying isn’t going to kill them like it killed my son. They offer info about recovery and rehab facilities. They offer an ear and a shoulder.  They see an addict as a person, a human being, suffering from an illness that will not let go.

You can check them out in my shop

Or head directly over to the NC Harm Reduction website and contribute to them directly.