Our oldest boy died of an unintentional heroin/fentanyl overdose on his 22nd birthday celebration, in December, 2015. Our family members generated this video clip to aid teenagers and also their families avoid the excruciating course of addiction. Understand how addiction starts as well as just how to avoid it. We invite any person sharing this video clip to help others.
Thank you! What an insightful, beautiful and valuable way to remember your son. This is very helpful and I’m thankful for your selflessness. Truly! The Heath Family in Oklahoma
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for providing this video.
We, drug addicts just want to be happy, just like everyone else. We are sick ourselves and need help and understanding. Punishment and judgement make us sink deeper into our drug addiction. Just so you know, we, still have our soul, we are human beings too…
Thank you for your whole family including Alex. Your effort will help many, many youth and families ! My God protect and keep you !
Thank you for your comments and well-wishes. For all of you, including those who are familiar with addiction, our family wishes you peace, love, and joy. The month before Alex passed he said to me (his father), “Maybe I can help others”. He is.
One of my family members has an addiction.. I’ve been in a mild depression, when im happy i remember how much he hurt me and my mother and brother… with my therapist I was able to get better and with this video, i know what he went thru.. thank you
May Alex rest in peace. Thank you for this powerful and impactful message.
Can we talk about how alcohol gets its own separate terminology when discussing drugs? It IS a drug, and is one of the most harmful and damaging substances out there. We never just say drugs, its always drugs & alcohol. So why does it get special treatment when we talk about drugs? Call it what it is.
I was just going through videos related to drugs and abuses, I bumped into this video and I’m so thankful for this video!
Great animation. thank you! I’m sorry you lost your son to drugs. That must have been very sad.
This is a great approach. Most anti drug training focuses on demonizing the addict. To reach the addict, you need to show you understand where they are coming form. I lost my ex girlfriend in the swamp of narcotic addition.
I’m sorry for your loss.
I am an addictions counselor and I would like to point out that when you stated the reasons teenagers start addictions one of them is addictions already happening in the family. For that case, when you propose early intervention from parents as prevention it just would not work.
We come to this world preconditioned already and we mirror existing behaviors at home.
I do not have the answer because – as you stated – each case is unique, but I keep myself educating on the subject.
Thanks.
Thank you guys so much for this beautiful meaningful video.
I’ve learned a lot even thought I am not addicted to heroine.
Sending you love from Algeria ❤️🇩🇿
This is completely supported by the researches related to environmental role of using drugs. I think we face the same thing with behavioral addiction like using social media and video games too. I think we should pay more attention how we teach different coping mechanism to our young generation. This is a very important topic that we should talk about it more. Thank you for putting the effort to make this video. My Condolences.
I am sorry about the loss of your son. Wishing you and your loved ones many blessings and the strength you might need to walk through life without Alex.
Thank you for sharing your story! And sorry for your loss 🙁
Can I use this video and add my voice to translate the audio to portugues to use in my work with teens?
Thank you <3
Thank you for this video and thank you so much for making Japanese subtitle!
I will share this with my family and friends.
I felt so much love to your son from your video. I think Alex is really helping so much people.
@Joana Revez Hello Joana. Absolutely. If you would like a digital file of the video…if that would help…just send me a note at howaddictionhappens@gmail.com.
Thank you for the vid. A man, person(s), god or gods who understands you and the ordeal you are goin through and helps you cope with life in a constructive manner and more deserves love, honor and trust.
Teens tweens kids go through a whole lot of problems that only makes sense when you can recall yourself growing up or if you ever really had a good heart to understand and listen people or you really understood what childhood really is and gone through it conciously. A Need for emotional intelligence. Although it takes more than that. A more of patience and work than that.
To some- parents dont do a great deal and hence humanity may have looked for god and the cumulative inherited knowledge. Either way a parent figure and the responsibility to bear child and look after is a mutual responsibility from both end even if that doesnt make sense.
For we grow up to parent ourselves and our children.
Some lost their battles and some live among us. To those who havent lost. Please lookup gabor mate. Read books. Pray to god. Study atheism. Read learn and work it out. Meditate on your problems. Feel the pain embrace it and be willing. Be forgiving.
These videos are informative and helpful. As a thirteen year old (I’d never wish it on anyone), getting high was a way to cope with feelings of low self esteem, thinking I was cool and wanting acceptance by peers.
I just wanna say thanks for this video. I actually played this for my students in class. Really inspirational stuff.
This resonates with me. I lost a loved brother a year ago to addiction to alcohol. It took a toll on his self-esteem, jod, marriage and he withdrew from everyone. If only I knew how to help him…I fell so sad loosing him. I will use this clip to help the teens in my church with the hope they it will encourage them decide how they help themselves stay out of harm’s way. Sorry for the loss of your son.
im so sorry for your loss❤️, as a young adult who’s struggling with addiction this really pulled my heart strings. thank you
@Silenze Beats the thing is: regardless, alcohol is going to be separated from drugs because it is not normalized to do drugs in front of your kid yet it is normalized to drink legally in front of your kids. you can drink without really harming yourself (honestly i dont think anyone should drink but in the eyes of most people, you can) but you cant do drugs without doing any harm. since drinking is normalized, it SHOULD be separated so that kids know that they arent capable of “drinking responsibly” as kids, unlike their parents.
@phosphate Alcohol is a liquid, substance is like weed big difference and get it right next time
I‘d say it‘s because if you only drink 1 beer, you‘re not drunk at all, but if you smoke just a little bit of whatever, you‘re already getting high. You can control alcohol consumption more than every other drug. However, if you can‘t you‘re in very deep trouble.
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❤️ I hope for a kinder world were people don’t have to resort to drugs to cope
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For me I’m reaching the the type of messed up that will make me forget everything
Im so grateful to my mom she always talk with me about how dangerous are drugs and that developed a conscience in my brain about this. Always when i had curiosity to try drugs something stopped me. The conscience, a person,a situation. Thank God.
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