They’re highly effective opiate painkillers from tablets to patches. And in the mountains of Haywood
county about Waynesville moms and dads sense misuse
of prescription medication is out of management.
I am Theresa Kuykendall. I reside in Canton, North Carolina and
my son Andrew Kuykendall
died in 2007 from methadone.
My name is John Chapman my son died in July of 2009 from chewing a Fentanyl patch.
Equally John and Theresa
are now prepared to share their tales publicly to support other moms and dads.
I really desire he would convert himself in, stated Peggy Phillip’s whose son Joshua is
a fugitive from justice.
This is challenging on the total family members. It can be challenging on the Sheriff’s department,
and it’s gonna be challenging on him. I am really frightened for his daily life.
Joshua is 23 years outdated and
he is been an addict for about 9 years now and I think he is using prescription medication at this time, stated Peggy.
My name is Joan Robb and a 12 months in the past March, I
misplaced my to start with born due to the fact he was having prescription medication.
Joan stated her 40-12 months-outdated son Bill experienced
turn out to be an addict.
He experienced bad again challenges and he noticed this medical doctor promotion
for agony management and went to see him and was approved all sorts of medication.
He attempted to arrive off them, stated Joan, but it proved too a great deal. He could not take care of it. And
he hung himself.
I received the cell phone call that afternoon from my brother and it
was the worst day of my daily life,
stated Theresa Kuykendall. I will hardly ever ignore it.
Theresa’s son Andrew experienced taken methadone tablets. Methadone is utilized to wean
addicts off medication. Theresa thinks Andrew wasn’t experimenting but basically took the tablets
contemplating they would support him get some sleep.
She’d warned about lots of items
but hardly ever considered it was important to chat with him about prescription drug
abuse.
I experienced no clue I experienced to warn
him. I considered you experienced to acquire the total
bottle to die, stated Theresa.
Father John Chapman appreciates his son John
was experimenting. A good friend bought two fentanyl patches from a Haywood
county drug seller for 20-five bucks.
He informed him he experienced been in a auto wreck and required them for
agony and he offered them to him(my son’s good friend), stated John.
He gave one to my son and informed
him to chew it like chewing gum.
Fentanyl is an
anesthetic.
It was intended to be seventy two hrs of medicine that is absorbed through
the physique through the patch, stated John.
His son went to sleep and hardly ever woke up. His father keeps a upper body of his son John’s important keepsakes and memories.
He also keeps a photo
of his son’s grave on his mobile cell phone as a reminder.
Youngsters today will not know that this is closing and how fatal this medicine is, stated John.
They think that it’s a secure large a secure emotion
due to the fact its approved by a medical doctor and it’s made in controlled pharmacies,
and it’s controlled
by the Food and drug administration and it’s secure but (when misused) it’s
not.
Angie Treadway says her
son Tyler experimented with prescription tablets the night time he died.
He experienced taken xanax a few of times and this was the to start with time he took methadone and percocet,
stated Angie Treadway, his mom.
Tyler experienced just graduated from Pisgah Substantial School. Convicted drug seller Brenda
Childers provided Tyler with painkillers. Tyler
overdosed.
He was in total cardiac arrest, stated Angie.
Hospitalized for months, Tyler
survived but he’ll hardly ever be the similar. His medicals costs now exceed a million bucks paid out
for by Medicaid. His mom remembers the bill
for rehab in Charlotte.
It was shut to $500,000 for
all those five months, stated Angie.
She says little ones are thieving tablets from houses.
‘If you have drugs like that, make guaranteed you preserve depend of it. Continue to keep
it locked away and will not explain to any individual how to get it.
Even now there are tears for Theresa Kuykendall who desires people to
know her son Andrew’s story, hoping it
resonates.
Andrew was extremely outgoing,
he loved daily life. He liked playing basketball. He
was just a great child, and I skip him a lot.
*Tune in for the ongoing series of Prescription tablet stories Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm.by Kimberly KingFollow Kim on Twitter @KimKingReports
