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

no one cared. I feel that he was dumped there. I think rehab should be much longer
with a real program that actually helps with real change. Rehabs should be easier to
enter for people and should have education and job training. I also think drug
programs should be better and start earlier. I as a parent didn’t know how to talk to my
child about heroin. I thought my child was too smart. He was in gifted classes, and I
only knew how to talk to him about pot and alcohol.
Kids should be shown the truth about drugs and what they do, and my child’s death
certificate shouldn’t say accident. This was no accident. My child was tricked into
taking something he didn’t know was fentanyl. His life mattered. All these supposed
accidental overdoses should truly be investigated as if it was their own child. If i had a
back injury and told a friend at work and they offered me an Advil but give me
something else and I die, they would investigate it. That friend would be charged for
murder for giving me something other than Advil, yet my son who had previously been
and addict is labeled as an addict, and it was ok for someone to give him something
other than what he thought it was.
We have lived in Texas our whole life. Joshua was born in Houston. We moved here
when he was a year old. He’d never been away from home except when he went to
prison and then later to Florida.
In closing, these “just say no to drugs” programs they have at the schools should
include parents that have lost their child to drugs to assist with the teaching. The
classes should be for parents as well as the children and should start at a younger
age. We need to let people know the harsh reality of trying drugs even once. This can
be done by having a memorial in our state capital showing all the faces, ages, names
of all the ones we lost. We hope you will help us make this happen.
Sincerely,
LuAnda Puente
Mother of Joshua Puente, Forever 26
Fort Worth, TX
942