FOUNDER

Crawling out of a van at 3am during a freezing rain storm in a Walmart parking lot looking for a place to pee I suddenly saw exactly what i had become; I was a drug addict. 18 years after that night I have dedicated myself to recovery. As of February 2024, my motivation was given a violent shove into high gear and I am unstoppable now. Addiction took everything away from me all those years ago but I fought and worked and persevered to get where I am today. My motivation was the excitement of having my life back, my kids, my own place and everything I only dreamed about. Now, having obtained all of that and then some, I realized I did slow down and take a back seat to all of this, until now..

Today, motivated but anger, pain and heartbreak I aim to become the voice that cannot be silenced. The voice for recovery. The voice of the scared. The voice of facts and hard evidence that will annihilate all of the misinformation and stigmas that plague the recovery community. More important than all of that combined, I am the voice for the surviving family members whose loved one’s life was suddenly, negligently and preventably taken from them leaving a group of broken hearts asking why?

Family members that have suffered such a tragic loss deserve answers, my family included. My sister died in February 2024 when she was given an illicit drug brought in to the hospital by a visitor who just waltzed right through the front door completely unscathed. The hospital failed miserably and I will see to it that they take responsibility for their lack of proper security measures and are held accountable for tragic death of my sister simply because it was preventable. She should still be here. Everything I do now I do for her, for her kids, for my parents, for all the addicts and former addicts fighting a broken system trying to get into treatment, the recovery warriors who beat their addiction but still live with the aftermath they don’t talk about because no one understands. For those who are riding the fence right now between recovery and relapsing, terrified you’ll cave, stop right now ad listen to me. I see you, I hear you, I understand how you feel, how crushing the hopelessness can seem sometimes, I’ve been there and I want you to know…I’ll be your voice, and i’ll stand for you as long as you fight. This is what Living life After Meth is.