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

Dear Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
I would like you to sit back and look into the eyes of our children who have lost their lives to the
fentanyl crisis. My son Jonathan Nager was a great person well-liked by all. He had a spark in
his life and loved playing his guitar. Jonathan and his dad played guitar together. Then one day
everything changed.
Jonathan had a couple of discs in his back that bothered him. Jonathan had an MRI done and it
showed he had problems. Every corner had a sign for a pain clinic. Jonathan started going to
them. He was put on oxytocin, morphine, and somas. After a couple of months, he became
addicted. This went on for a long time. Then he started shooting oxytocin in his veins. When he
didn’t have it, he was so sick. I felt weak as a mother because I couldn’t help my son.
My son had 2 children and I thought it would change but it didn’t. The grandkids started finding
his needles and watched him after he shot up. It was awful. Both loved their dad. Jonathan
overdosed several times. He could not afford the pills anymore and turned to heroin. I was
there for him and gave him CPR until the ambulance came. One time my granddaughter asked
me, “Why were you hurting my dad?” I just cried. I went with him to the ER many times and
begged them to commit him or he would die. I was crying and pleading for help. I lost Jonathan
to heroin and car fentanyl on February 7, 2017. He was 32. Then I lost my second son, Timothy
on September 14, 2019, of a meth overdose. He never got over losing Jonathan. The pain is
real, and the losses seem unbearable at times. My life has changed forever.
Please imagine this was your children. We are seeking your support in areas of awareness and
a more conscious effort and response to the overwhelming statistics of death by the drug
epidemic in the state of Michigan. As of May,2023 there are over 1900 deaths in Michigan
within the first 5 months of this year. We need to bring attention to this and ask for action to be
taken to bring awareness to the public that we so desperately seek.
As a parent I am asking that the Capitol be willing to create and share a version of the
Memorial Wall, like the wall in DC. We have created two Memorial walls. These digital walls
and albums update automatically. We would like the photos displayed in hard copy format. The
wall of names could be projected on a wall so families could touch their loved one’s names. We
would like our loved ones to be treated as victims. They were all victims of Purdue Pharma (the
American Cartel) and many others.
Sincerely,
Debra Nager,
Mother of Jonathan Nager Forever 32
Novi, Michigan
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