What Heroin Sounds Like

Dawn Meyers

One of her boyfriends laced her pot with heroin, starting her path to addiction. She did not choose to take heroin, she was forced onto the path of addiction. On July 25, 2015 Dawn was found unresponsive in her apartment, she was rushed to the hospital by her mother and sister. She was brain dead by the time she arrived at the hospital and eventually passed away.

Her family describes Dawn as an all-around great person, someone who would give you her shirt off her back. She would feed homeless animals and give money to the homeless she saw. She witnessed a fatal car accident and tried resuscitating the hit pedestrian until they eventually passed in her arms. Dawn was a great person taken from the world too soon by addiction.

Harley

Harley was a loving and considerate person she never held grudges and was trustworthy to a fault. She loved basketball, to write poety, and always wanted to get married and have children. Sadly Harley was found unresponsive by her grandfather on December 21st 2016. She would pass before medical help arrived. Harley was a kind person who would entertain inmates with sock puppets during her time incarcerated, an inmate credits Harley with saving her life. Harley wanted to go back to school, get her license, get married, and have kids. The legal system failed to get Harley the help she needed and she would eventually succumb to her addiction.

Peter

Peter a chemistry major who found his work to be tedious and unfufilling pursued a law degree and became a patent lawyer. He would make 5 times his chemist salary in his new line of work. In law school he was editor of the law review and No. 1 in his class, he gave the speech at graduation. Peter incredibly smart and talented was wildely successful in his work, but the stresses of his profession drove him to abuse prescription painkillers. Peter would be found dead in his home surrounded by drug paraphernalia, in 2015. He is survived by his ex-wife and son.

Story and images taken from the 2017 New York Times artcile - The Lawyer, the Addict
src: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/business/lawyers-addiction-mental-health.html

Chris Farley

On December 18, 1997, Farley was found dead by his younger brother, John, in his apartment in the John Hancock Center in Chicago. An autopsy revealed that Farley had died of an overdose of cocaine and morphine. Advanced atherosclerosis was cited as a 'significant contributing factor.' Farley's death is often compared to that of his SNL idol John Belushi, who also died at age 33 of an accidental overdose of cocaine and heroin.

Matthew Perry

Perry was cast on "Friends" when he was 24-years-old and entered rehab twice during his rise to fame. Perry, now an outspoken addiction recovery advocate, famously struggled with addictions to alcohol and several prescription drugs while filming the beloved sitcom. In 1997, the actor completed a 28-day program for Vicodin addiction, later telling Larry King that he took the painkiller "mostly just to not drink as much as I was." In 2001, he entered a rehab hospital to recover from his use of Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol.