USA First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

Dear First Lady Dawn Moore,
My name is Vicki Meyer Bishop, and I am the mother of Brian Wayne Meyer, born on
August 19, 1972. My first-born son who died of drug poisoning on Halloween 2017. Brian
was 45 years old.
Brian was in his late 20s and working in construction when he fell through a roof and was
badly injured. Brian’s injuries and pain were treated with the best non-addictive
prescription pain drug available in careless amounts and by the time he was healed, and
the medication no longer prescribed by his physician, Brian was profoundly addicted.
What happened next is a familiar tale of pill mills and drugs purchased on the street. Many
times, Brian tried to break his dependence. Sadly, this addicted lifestyle held his family
hostage for years of rehabs, promises, successes, relapses, and overdoses. It was
unbelievably brutal for Brian and terrifying for his family. Our stories end the same way
and Brian’s addiction killed him on October 31, 2017. His death caused by fentanyl
poisoning.
I cannot bring my son Brian back, give him a drug-free life and a chance for happiness. I
must now feel a mother’s heartbreaking pain every night when I close my eyes to sleep. I
see my beautiful son and his addicted life that led him to a cold steel medical table in the
Baltimore County Medical Examiner’s Office, blue, alone and quite dead.
Mrs. Moore, I am writing this letter to you for a very big ask. We need your help to find a
permanent location for a Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall in Maryland’s Capitol. We have
created two Memorial Walls, one with photos and one with names. I am including Brian’s
frame. Please look into his eyes and see him as a man of worth with a terminal disease.
These digital walls and albums update automatically. We would also like the photos
displayed in hard copy format. The wall of names can be projected on a wall so families
can touch their loved one's name. We would like our loved ones to be treated like the
victims they were - victims of a society that ignored them by failing to treat addiction as an
illness and to stigmatize their disease. No one chooses to become an addict and they
deserve to be remembered as people of significance who are dying in unbelievably high
numbers. We are losing a whole generation to this insidious epidemic.
A group of our Maryland moms would like very much to meet with you and work together
to find a home for the Memorial Wall. Please make time for us.
Sincerely,
Vicki Meyer Bishop, mother of Brian Meyer F45 Clarksburg, Maryland
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