Many of you reading will no doubt have been touched by addiction, whether in your immediate family or beyond, and the heartbreak of a loss will never go away.
This is truly the case for US mum Tina Wells Louden, whose heart-wrenching Facebook post to ‘her daughter’s drug dealer’ has gone viral.
Tina’s daughter, Ashley, passed away at the age of 25 from heroin addiction. She would have been 28 years old this month.
Taking to Facebook, Tina shared a photo of herself holding the urn containing Ashley’s ashes, and wrote: “To my daughter’s drug dealer: this is how I spend my daughter’s birthday now…How do you live with yourself? That’s all I want to know.”
“I don’t normally post pics like this, but let’s make this go viral so all the drug dealers see what they are doing to our families,” she added.
While many people were sympathetic to Tina, however, a number of others took issue with her apportioning of the blame for Ashley’s death.
“No one wants to take self-fault. If people didn’t buy drugs, drug dealers would be out of business. I understand this woman is hurt, but her daughter had a conscious…People need to take responsibility for their own actions, and families need to understand [that] they can’t save or help anyone if they don’t want it,” wrote one woman.
That comment alone garnered overwhelming support on Tina’s post, clocking up a whopping 19,000 ‘likes’.
What are your thoughts on Tina’s post, and the reaction?
