Encinitas woman reflects on the passing of her son due to fentanyl. National Fentanyl Awareness Day was May 9, 2023.
“He had an amazing laugh. Everybody said even since he was little his laugh was just so infectious,” Snaith said.“He did have this little habit of twiddling his hair. He’d kind of get a bit of hair. He’d sort of do this with it when he was watching television or you know,” Snaith said.
Snaith told ABC 10News this kind and caring 21-year-old man passed on a Sunday morning shortly after his birthday in 2020. “I think it was an oxycodone pill laced that was with fentanyl,” Snaith said. “And he was sitting on the bed, kind of slumped over. And he had vomited. It was just so traumatic. I had never ever sort of seen a dead body like that.”This is the second year of National Fentanyl Awareness Day being on the calendar.
“Sometimes, you know, there’s enough fentanyl in that one pill to kill four or five people. It’s that powerful. They have no idea which I believe Alexander had no idea, you know, what he was taking. He just thought he was taking an opioid pain killer,” Snaith said.“Was really just to tell anyone I know, anyone I can reach, you know, what to look for. All of the warning signs that I didn’t know, and to carry Narcan and to educate their children.
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