I just want everyone to know that my son Michael overdosed on fentanyl,” this heartbroken mother wrote. “My son was not an addict he made a mistake that cost him his life.”
Michael Kent passed away on March 21.
According to his mom, Michael and his sister were running errands when they stumbled upon an unknown man who offered them drugs, as per CBC.
This happened a day before the tragedy struck. Michael sister told him not to take the pills, but he met with the man the following day.
He bought the drugs and took them inside the store’s bathroom, where he overdosed.
“By the time the ambulance got there he was in cardiac arrest,” Sherri told CBC.
Michael was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
“Believe me, it was the worst day of my life,” Sherri said.
According to the Huffington Post, “deaths due to opioid overdoses have risen sharply in the past few years, partly due to a particularly potent drug called fentanyl. Fentanyl is between 50 and 100 times more powerful than another opioid, morphine, and its use seems to be on the rise in the U.S.”