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Do not let drug
addiction destroy your family like it did mine
By Will Davis John counts over 30 sui- He watched helplessly as doctor, but he still denied
pubhsher@mymcr.net cides by Monroe Coun-his father's body debili- there was a problem.
tians since 1970 and he tated, and he took even "By now he was taking
A life-long Forsyth thinks some of them are more Percodan as his more than 28 pills per
resident whose parents probably related to drug body built up a resistance week," said John, "which
and sister battled drug addiction, to its effects, would kill a normal per-
addiction - eventually tak- "I want to make people John told his dad that he son."
ing his father's life - wants aware that there are things wasn't the same daddy he Finally, in 1980, the
Monroe County families to look for" said John. knew growing up. drugs, which are a depres-
to be vigilant and join the ' knd warn people what "I don't know you any-sant, had their full effect.
war against addiction, the final result can be." more" John told him. John's father went into the
The local man asked John realized his dadJohn said his father backyard of his Forsyth
to remain anonymous, had a problem after lashed back out at him. home, put a double barrel
let's call him John, but he graduating from college ' .nybody that's on this, shotgun at the base of a
approached the Reporter and returning to work for they get defensive" said tree, put his stomach on
because drug addiction him in the 1970s. John John. the end of the barrel and
is widespread and affects said his dad got a stomach Finally, John made used a stick to fire the
numerous families in ulcer which required sur- . appointments to see his trigger.
Monroe County. gery to remove. He also father's Forsyth doctor to John later learned then
John said there are lots suffered from inflamma- try to address the addic- that his father had been
of news stories about the tory arthritis. He started tion. The doctor said he getting Percodan not only
growing opioid addiction taking Percodan and didn't see any signs of
problem, but he said it's before long was taking 28 addiction. John tried a
actually not a new story. Percodan pills per week. second meeting with the See F gge 2C
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