To the editor:
What a relief. The more dealers our police bust, the better the chance our children have.
As a mother of a recovering oxy-addicted 19-year-old, I know the pure hell that is thrust upon the families of our children today. My daughter's supplier was her 64-year-old grandmother's medicine bottle.
My husband and I found out about her addiction a few days after my mother-in-law's heart stopped due to prolonged prescription drug abuse.
We not only had to take care of planning her funeral, we had to figure out what steps we needed to take to help our daughter get well.
We came very close a few times to burying our daughter also. I am more than proud to say, after almost three years of this devil's drug consuming our lives, my daughter has been seven months sober (she did have one brief relapse).
Despite all of the tragedy that we have been through, I am now in my first year of a social service work program, and my daughter has asked me to save my notes as she is registering to take the same program this fall. I know that my daughter is one of the lucky ones. I just pray that this bust has helped save a life. Thank-you.
Shelley Cooke,
Thunder Bay
