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09-15-2015, 04:56 PM
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Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
Personal Note: Check out their happy faces of the family standing next to the casket. Idk, just not the facial expression I would have chosen for a picture that would be shared to millions of people about the effects of drug addiction on the family, but that's just me.  Eva Holland says she posted this photo of herself and children standing beside her late husband's open casket in an effort to warn others about the dangers of drug addiction. An Ohio mother who lost her husband to a heroin overdose has shared a stirring photo of herself and her children beside his open casket in an effort to warn others about the dangers of drug addiction. "The cold hard truth is heroin kills. You may think it will never happen to you but guess what that's what Mike thought too," Eva Holland of Cincinnati posted with her family's final photo, showing 26-year-old Mike Settles lying lifeless beside them. "I'm sure this photo makes a lot of people uncomfortable it may even piss a few people off but the main reason I took it was to show the reality of addiction," she wrote with its upload Thursday. The young father of two's addiction began with painkillers, his widow wrote. He entered rehab late last year and came out "a brand new man" just in time for Christmas, she recalled.  Holland explained her reasoning for the photo's upload last week. It's since been shared hundreds of thousands of times. In May, Settles posted two photos of himself side-by-side with two hashtags reading "transformation" and "healthy" along with a small smiley face. Two days later he shared a photo of him with his wife, reading: "This evening we decided to be a family again. Wish us luck!!!" Tragically, it was something as small as a toothache that his wife said led to him to turn to pain pills again. That slip re-sparked his deadly battle with addiction. "We were together 11 years. I was there before it all started. I knew what he wanted out of this life, all his hopes and dreams. He never would've imagined his life would turn out this way," Holland wrote.  The mother of two said her 26-year-old husband, Mike Settles, never believed his drug use would kill him. He entered rehab late last year and left clean. Tragically, he relapsed several months later. "He said he could handle it, that he could stop on his own and didn't need to get help again. Well he was wrong, last Wednesday he took his last breath. "I just needed to share his story in case it can help anyone else." As of Monday her photo has been shared on Facebook more than 247,000 times, which includes her personally sharing it on two heroin support group pages, she wrote. "I've had people tell me that his story stopped them from using and others who say it's motivating them to continue their recovery, even if it a just for the day, this is saving lives," she posted.  Holland said her story spread so far as to motivate a local heroin addict into preventing her own fatal overdose. Her efforts were particularly powerful when she said she was greeted by a total stranger who ran up to her crying, asking for a hug. "She said 'I am a heroin addicted and was going to try and overdose last night but then I (saw) your post and you saved my life. I can never thank you enough!' So we stood there hugging each other crying," she recalled. Among those sharing Holland's story are several anti-heroin groups, including Maryland Heroin Awareness Advocates, Baltimore group "Heroin is Killing My Town," the Washington state-based group "Heroin and our community," and Northern Kentucky & Cincinnati group, "Heroin Kills You."   |
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09-15-2015, 05:26 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
She is making a point about how drugs can destroy lives. Not only the person using whatever drug of choice but to family and friends. The children will never further experience the love of a caring biological father during their life. If she does re-marry, I hope the step-father is much more responsible and excludes drugs from his, and their, lives.
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09-15-2015, 06:01 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
 good post. nothing untasteful here.
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09-15-2015, 07:03 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
Tl/dr drugs are bad mmmkay! |
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09-15-2015, 08:26 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
Awesome post. Thanks for sharing.
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09-15-2015, 09:44 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
I'm no body language expert (had like, one lesson) but I see fake smiles on her face while he was alive and contempt at the funeral...
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09-15-2015, 10:02 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
I think she is smiling next to the casket because she is happy he is dead.
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09-15-2015, 11:20 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
Well, he like most hardcore drug addicts was probably hell to live with.
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09-15-2015, 11:47 PM
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Re: Ohio Mom,children Pose with Dead Father to Warn About Dangers of Drug Addiction
She has to hold it together for her kids. They couldn't say, "Ok kids act sad because your daddy is dead". Almost every person that loves someone in active addiction waits on that phone call to say they have overdosed. They get very good at putting on that happy face for the public to see so no one knows the hell they are living through also.
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