Juli Shamash lost her son to a fentanyl overdose in 2018, and since then she's made it her life mission to raise awareness on the fentanyl crisis, which claimed over 100,000 lives in 2021.
Following the loss of her teenage son, a Beverlywood mother has taken on a mission to prevent further loss of life at the hands of fentanyl. Juli Shamash lost her son Tyler in 2018, just after his 18th birthday due to a fentanyl overdose. Since his death, she has made it her life's mission to help prevent other families from going through what hers had to go through.
She put up a series of billboards around her hometown, targeted towards the current fentanyl crisis that seems to have taken America by storm, with over 100,000 overdoses reported in 2021 alone. They currently adorn the sides of a building adjacent to Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, where parents and students traveling to and from school can clearly see them. "Fentanyl can be in any drug you buy on the street or online.""Your first time doing drugs can be your last.
Shamash co-founded Moms Against Drugs, an organization engineered to"address the overdose epidemic and support the prosecution of drug dealers who cause drug-induced deaths," as detailed on"He was always sweet," she continued, remarking how teenagers face a considerable amount more pressure than people often recognize."He just wasn't happy with the person he was and wanted to escape.
The billboards have also run from late December to mid-February Olympic Blvd and Barrington Avenue and from December until March on Lincoln and Washington Boulevards."It couldn't be a better location, because I think a lot of times for billboards that are up high, the kids are busy on their phones, they're not going to see them," she noted."This is right when they walk out of Hamilton High School.
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