This is Alexa’s story and I ask that you share it with your loved ones and friends. Because:
1. The horrible stigma that many people have of heroin addicts needs to be dispelled. Our daughter was beautiful, intelligent, educated and well spoken. She was given every opportunity a child should have. We are hard working parents who have raised our children with morals and values. We are not addicts. We are normal people who have always given the best to our children. Alexa was not a ‘street junkie’. She worked from the age of 16 and supported herself up until a few months before her death. She was somebody. She was our beloved daughter. And we will forever wonder if there was anything we could have done differently.
2. If this can happen to Alexa then it can happen to anyone. It only takes one time to become addicted to heroin. ONE TIME is what it was for Alexa. She took heroin having no idea the power it would have over her. Heroin is EVERYWHERE. Alexa used for the first time on her college campus while she was drinking and her judgement was weakened. Your loved one could be offered heroin, just like Alexa. He/she might take it and think they won’t get addicted, just like Alexa. You can be assured that if my precious daughter, who had the world at her feet, could become addicted to heroin and die from an overdose, it can just as easily happen to your child or loved one as well.
Please share my daughter, Alexa’s story and when you do, please show her picture.
Thank you,
Susan Frost Lamoureux
Moms and dads I must encourage you to heed Susan’s words. It absolutely can happen to any of our kids and we need to talk to them about making good choices. She mentioned that Alexa use heroin for the first time when she had been drinking so that’s all the more reason to talk to your kids about not drinking excessively. There’s so much more to consider so much more we have to add to the conversation other than just “don’t do drugs” or “just say no.”
Alexa had “the world at her feet”, and now she has lost her life. Let’s prepare to fight so that our children won’t be the next To fall victim to this drug epidemic.
Thank you Susan, for being brave enough to share your daughter with us. We will share her story and we will show her picture. She was precious, her life mattered, and heroin addiction does not define her.
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