Death of a friend

On 11/11/11 a friend of mine suddenly died. Her lifeless body was found by her father. Unofficially it was an overdose. Knowing her she died from some type of prescription opiate that may have been mixed with some type of benzo and or alcohol and or pot. It is a very sad situation. I personally think it was a suicide. Nobody will ever forget she died on a day that only happens once every hundred years.

Anyway I did not come here for sympathy. I wanted to say take care and be careful if you indulge. You might never wake up and leave grieving friends and family behind.

Be safe out there.

 

I'm sorry to hear this. Eight years ago, on Nov. 7th, I lost my brother to an overdose. We will never know if it was intentional or not. I'm sorry for your loss.

 

Sorry for your loss man. She chose a poetic date, if it was a choice. perhaps she was just celebrating . . . we shall never know.

 

You right. Maybe she just wanted to have an 11/11 private party and took it too far. Nobody will know now.

 

My best friend died in a similar way in July of 2008. I broke down today over it for the first time in months. If you don't care about what happens to you if you OD, at least think about what happens to your family and loved ones. It's an everlasting rough road. I know your pain, Hippie, I hope you'll be okay.

 

Sorry to hear that man. Benzos and pain meds are never a great combo

 

I found out it was heroin, lots of heroin.

 

Sorry to hear that. Herion has taken to many good people from us. I just hope you and her family can find some peace thru the unfortunate circumstances.

 

Always a frightening wake up call for those of us who have played with fire recently. Hopefully posting this saves someone's life.

 

cool story

 

never had a close friend die, but a few friends of friends passed in my high school......We were labeled "heroin high" back in 1999......sad.......it really hit us hard as we lost a few people before i graduated........so sad......all to H....\


Here are some reads regarding my highschool.....fairly long read.....

http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3724

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n824/a07.html

 

Sorry to hear about it bro, sympathy to the family as well...

Opiate addiction itself can be painful for the user and friends/family.. a friend who dies from it is tragic.. I gave opiates up for both those reasons and more..

 

I know what you are going through too well.

I lost a friend from a heroin overdose back in 2005, he was 18, his mom found him on his bed when she tried to wake him up.

In 2006 I lost a friend from an oxy overdose, he wanted to get messed up one last time before leaving to go to Afganistan to fight for his country, once again, he was found in his bed by his mom, he was 19.

In 2007 my aunt passed away from cardiac arrest due to chronic meth and alcohol use. I lived with her for 12 years, me and her son found her in her bed one morning, she was 41.

August of this year, my best friend passed away from recurring pnuemonia that he happened to be battling since a night we both overdosed on MS, Oxy, and Klonopin. His mother, sister, and I were with him when he passed at the hospital at age 24. He passed, I lived. It crushed me.

I've been mourning all these deaths in my life for the last 6 years. The sad part? I continued to use after each of the first 3 deaths (Progessively worse and worse after each one). I got clean from opiates (Oxy, Opana, MS, Heroin, and a gang of Benzos) back in March of this year, right after that night I ODed. My best friend did too. We battled our addiction together, doing a great job, so when he passed away it was a huge shock. I came on here and told everyone on here about it a while after it happened. I was so close to relapsing and throwing my sobriety away. With the help of this forum, my friends, family, co-workers, and everyone in my life I've stayed sober.

I can't help but feel like I could have been one of them, found dead by my family laying in my bed. I've overdosed 3 times in my life on a cocktail of painkillers and benzos, at any one of those occasions it could have been my time and it could be one of my friends or family members on here talking about it instead.

I want you to know that me and many people on here share your pain. It happens everyday; some poor family, some poor friends get their lives turned upside down because of drugs, and especially prescription narcotics and heroin. I wish you and your friends' family the best, and my thoughts and hopes go out to you.

I have nothing against opiates or drugs in general, it's just that I was one of the many who succumbed to addiction, but thankfully I'm not a statistic or a casualty, I'm not trying to preach. I want everyone out there to be careful, no life is worth throwing away over pills or bags. Once your gone, it's your family and friends who have to suffer.

I have a feeling this Thanksgiving is going to be pretty important to me. I've got a lot to be thankful about. Happy Thanksgiving guys, hope you have a good one.

 

I'm sorry, but a lot less sorry since you acted like weed could have contributed to her death.

 

sorry for your troubles hippie.r.i.p. i've lost countless people very close to me from alcohol an other drugs.so many i've lost count.my thoughts are with you.

 

my condolences to her family and friends. my fiancé died the same way on Christmas of 2008. it's a terrible thing, love everybody while you still can.

 

I'm sorry about this double post, but I forgot to mention something.

I read those articles PC. They remind me of my experiences at middle school and high school.

When I was in 8th grade there were a lot of kids I knew and hung out with who were smoking weed, it was most certainly the drug of choice and really the only drug being used besides alcohol. Every new school year I saw a shift in what kids were getting into. The school I went to was an inner-city one, a few blocks from a notorious neighborhood known for drugs, drug dealers, and crime in general. I remember everyday getting out of school, right around the corner there was always some shady characters selling drugs to kids, it was too easy to get (Frickin' disturbing right? 13-14 year olds having drugs shoved in their faces everyday...).

In 9th grade, I noticed a real shift towards E, Acid, Shrooms, and Mescaline (which I also got into). It was pretty much the "in" thing to do at the time. Almost everyone I knew at that point had tried one of those drugs. None of us really thought it was a big deal seeing as most of us had parents or people close to us who were addicted to meth or crack. We just thought hallucinogens were no big deal.

In 10th grade, cocaine was the new "in" drug. I remember it was everywhere. Kids were coming to school wired, doing lines in the bathroom or even in class, and you would have had a real hard time not being able to find some. I didn't really get into it. I tried it a few times, but it was really too expensive and not really "my cup of tea". I stuck with weed and the hallucinogens. I did start taking lortabs on the occasion though.

11th grade. Pills became king. It was all about Oxycontin. It was cheap (about $20-$25 for an 80) and everywhere. I really wasn't into it, I was still just smoking weed and taking the occasional lortab/perc. 2 kids I went to school with overdosed and died, but oxy use just kept gaining popularity.

12th grade was where shit hit the fan in my school. Soooooo many kids were addicted to oxy, and due to the drugs popularity, the price skyrocketed ($50-$80 an 80) and as usual they started looking for cheaper alternatives. The nuclear heroin bomb exploded in my school and pretty much the entire city. I caught people in the bathroom shooting up a number of times. Kids were either getting high in school, just plain dropping out, or getting arrested. I remember at least 3 incidents of kids getting pulled out of my classroom by cops in hand cuffs. One kid even called in a bomb threat and demanded that if he didn't get a lot of heroin the school would be blown to pieces, CRAZY right? Swat was actually called in and I remember news crews and cops/firetrucks everywhere with a couple thousand kids running out of the school.

3 kids died that year in my school from oxy/heroin overdoses. It was out of control. One day I woke up in the morning, went out to my first piece of shit car I ever owned that I busted my ass off to get and there was a kid trying to pull my stereo out. I pulled him out, threw him on the ground, saw he had bad track marks on his arms, and that he couldn't have been more than 13 years old, his voice hadn't even dropped yet!

I think what happened at your school PC happens at many, many schools around the country. It's shocking really. I just wanted to mention this, because it really, really does remind me of my high school. I'll look for an article about it, and when I find it I'll post it for you.

Once again, hope you guys have a good Thanksgiving.

 

lol i walked in on two friends dead on two different occasions. both time heroin.

 

that aint something to "lol" about o_0 if you can lol about it they werent good friends i assume? i lost my dad to cancer, it most likely caused by smoking crack/meth/ciggarettes. i was ony 13, and i had not talked to him in over a year. losing familly to any kind of drug is hard, i still cant beleive it. my highscholl is going to shit as well. the oxy's and perc's are starting to come out, coke has been around for a while. it all happens so quickly that you just go with the flow, you know? it just seems like one day your a grade nine smoking a couple poppers with buddies, and now all of a sudden your in grade 12 and doing lines of coke in the bathroom and kids are shooting up outback and stuff. it all just happens so quickly. ive lost a few friends to drugs and it never gets any easier.

 

nope best friends lol