David Feighery
Sep 9, 2018 · 9 min read

“Rocovering opiode addict , i could be your son to”

my name is David ,i thought this would be a great topic to write about being that were in the middle of an opiode epidemic ,and every 33 minutes we’re losing another good person fighting the disease of addiction and yes it is a disease ,researchers have found that people suffering from addiction any addiction alcohol, drugs,sex,food we all have this extra cell that isnt found in people who can eat ,drink and have sex or even socially use drugs with moderation.Therefore; addiction has been recognized as a disease and is now covered by most insurance companies.

Let me start by saying ,i grew up in a blue classs ,middle income household ,i’m your all American kid ,well i used to be. I was a very gifted athlete and i love to play guitar and write music ,i traveled all over Europe representing TEAM USA in a tournament called the KNACKA CUP sponsored by team SWEDEN and i was very ,very proud to be the first string starting goal tender ,and being the very first team from the United States to be invited to play in this tournament . I returned from Europe which was an experience i’ll never never forget. This trip Europe was the highlight of my life and i think i can speak for my team mates as well. I was very fortunate to return to the US and i was in the sports section of the local papers on a daily basis and captured the attention of a great coach and a great man with a huge heart and love for the game of hockey and for his players as well, and so i’d like to thank coach MICKEY LEONE from STAMFORD CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL for attending my games he never missed a game when i was playing thankyou for your service COACH WE ALL LOVE YOU ,AND MISS YOU, BLESS YOUR SOUL AND R.I.P,. COACH LEON was waiting for me when i came out of the locker room after a game one night and asked me if i would come to STAMFORD CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL and play hockey for him and i was so honored it was always a dream of mine to go to play hockey at STAMFORD CATHOLIC . Most of the players i idolized from my neighborhood attended Stamford Catholic, as well and now it was finally my turn and my dreams were coming true. I was given an all expesnse paid 4 year scholarship to play for coach LEONE and get a great education at the same time. My mom is the strongest woman i no to this day.she was a single parent ,raising 4kids and 3 of us were a real handful . The only child that didn’t give my mom any trouble was my youngest sister who because of her career i’m changing her name to protect her identity, and um !we’ll call her courtney just a name i’ve always loved and have so much love and respect ,honor and am extremely proud to have courtney as my sister. I always aspired to be like her and i’m not jealouse of her success and my demise im very proud of her success and can’t speak highly enough about her and how much i love her, i don’t think she “courtney” even realizes much love i have for her in my heart ,she went on to become a very successful lawyer and that’s the reason i changed her name for this story. I love you with all my heart sis .My dream after my hockey career was to move to California and be a rock 🌟 star.

I did make it to California where i had to take a day job ,I had just spent 30 days in my 1st of a series of different rehads for drug addiction mostly cocaine i was running the largest drug ring with a great friend of mine in fairfiend county and after 18 months of a federal investigation i deciced the smartest move for me was to hideout in this rehad since i knew the hipa laws to confidentiality would protect me from the FBI,DEA STATE WIDE NARCOTICS TASK FORCE AND STAMFORD POLICE NARCOTICS TASK FORCE AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT. I was awake for 9 days ,i began to hallucinate i was only 115 lbs at 18yrs old 5ft 9 in tall ,i was severely malnutritioned and dehydrated and my mom got me to a hospital who said they couldn’t help me and i was gonna die if i didnt get help immediately .The next time i opened my eyes 3 days had passed and all I knew was i was in a hospital somewhere,.At that point anywhere was better then prison ,as i read the paper daily about the chase for my partner and the crew of young men we had been distributing our cocaine. Each day the feds were getting closer and closer . It was the advice of my counselor after meeting with me and my mom that if she wanted to see me alive it was in my best interest to get me as far away from stamford ct as possible, and 30 days after being in rehab during which time all my crew andy partner and best friend had all been apprehended except myself and 1 other guy from my crew who also showed up in the same rehab as me 1 day later .Off i was to California my dream, here was my chance to follow my dream and become a rock star 🌟. i had an uncle out in Orange County couldn’t pick a better place to go ,the women ,were drop dead georgeous and i’ve always been very lucky with the girls ,i had a real thing for strippers and they were the best girls to go home and party with they always had money and most of them were bi-sexual so i was able to enjoy threesomes and group sex myself and several strippers what more could a guy ask for? i ended up getting a job with a tile company ,we did mostly all commercial work i did the penthouse at the 5seasons hotel ,i can give you a list of mega stars i met who stayed there but i don’t wanna go on to long

i was an installer for a marble and granite company ,i was 18. It’s inevitable when your lifting that type of weight, and working with that heavy material and machinery something is going to happen someone is going to get hurt ,and that person was me . I was helping a co-worker load a 4ft wide 8ft long piece of marble and the piece behind it fell square across my toes ,my boot felt hot and i could hear the blood squising in my boot everytime time i took a step. The hospital shot me up with 2mgs of dilauded,and that didnt work so they gave me a second shot of dilauded, i just remember that all my pain went away and all of a sudden it just felt like heaven from that moment on . I was 18 i had fallen in love with opioid pain killers.I was already pre-disposed to addiction, due to my biological father being a violent alcoholic . This drug does not discriminate ,weather it was girls ,women , cocaine,alcohol marijuana ,hash, hallucinagenics like agle dust ,acid ,mushrooms i’ve done them all, i loved them all, but cocaine and heroin were my drugs of choice. Nothing had value to me unless it was opioids ,fentnyl,oxy codone painkiller ,Percocet ,vicodan , morphine, dilauded, demerol ,I truely loved them !up until the day came when the doctors wouldn’t write me anymore prescriptions ,

I have never been sick from opiates before, heard about it ,but never experienced it,this was the worst nightmare of my life ,.It doesn’t descriminate,color ,gender ,,age doesn’t matter ,the only way i can describe being dope sick , as we heroin addicts call it umm !! is to take the flu add the worst stomach virus you’ve ever had times that by 1000 and that’s what its like to be dope sick or withdrawing from opioid pain killers which are sythentic and make you feel just as shitty ,I was forced to turn to herion ,when i could no longer get prescription pain killers and the same doctors started seeing me repeatedly they wouldn’t give me anymore shots of morphine or dilauded,and i was forced to go out into the most dangerous neighborhood’s I’ve ever experienced in my entire life. I was robbed at gun point three times ,i had stolen anything worth value from my family members, hence they all put out restraining orderings on me ,.I was basically left to fend for myself. Heroin i’snt a drug like other drugs where you can do them when you feel like smoking a join or sniffing a line of coke ,Heroin you need everyday or you get dope sick ,which i described to you earlier in a very nice way . my body craved herion every 5 or 6 hours everyday and you only get high from the herion the first week you use it and then you need it to just function and not be sick . I swore i’d never use a needle ,.In 2002 when i couldnt afford my habit sniffing i used my first needle i’m a junkie ,i was homeless ,sleeping on the street , walking around aimlessly looking for cigarette butts on the ground. i didn’t feel like i could get any lower ,i had nothing ,i had no one, i was sick alot, and my habit was up to 200.00 a day when i entered my first detox. Heroin withdrawal is extremely painful ,excuse me for being graphic but you need to understand what we go through because, I could be your son. I grew up in the suburbs in a beautiful home ,witha good family ,i got a great education and then one day i find myself a full blown iv drug user shooting herion up to 8 times a day , I have been battleing this addiction since the year 2000 and 18 years later im still out patient at another treatment center this is i believe is my 8th relapse ,but i’ve been given another chance I’ve had 7 friends die from heroin over dose.I Lost my sister and best friend to this disease GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL PAL we were so close we called each other pal . I shoot 3bags at a time when im in my addiction . I’m happy to say that ive been clean for 4 years ,im in counseling, out patient treatment, and working with a therapist . I wanted to write this story becuse i could be any one of your sons ,im smart ,intelligent ,gifted, i got a great education on a hockey scholarship,and due to the disease of addiction didn’t finish a single semester of college . I’m bright ,smart intelligent and knowledgeable, ive lived a life they make movies about. I’ve made and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I am still addicted to women and sex ,i have read everything i can about female anatomy ,vaginal navigation, erogenous zones,foreplay, orgasms ,anything and everything i could learn about women and how to satisfy my lovers ,im very promiscuous i an not gonna say how many women i’ve had sex with because no one will believe it so just say i’m still addicted to sex and have multiple partners mostly you ger women ,21 to 34 wanna be with me and that’s perfect for my strong sex drive.

yes i’m a recovering heroin addict ,with the opiate epidemic we are just starting to see the beginning of scares me it’s just the tip of the ice bergh . The more doctors stop prescribeing opiate pain medications and not weaning patients like me off of these highly addictive drugs the more kids and adults are running right out into the hands of the waiting heroin dealers .Because of this i felt it was my responsibility due to the many people who took the time to reach out and help me, i have to tell you to ,watch for changes in your child ,pupils tell alot if your childs pupils are tiny like little pins ,if you see their hygiene get poor and things start to disappear from the house , chances are very good you have a problem in the family .My goal is to save just 1 person if i can help save 1 life then i’ve done my job. I’m not changing my name because if you want to reach out to me i will be happy to help you please email me if you need help if your a parent of a heroin addict i have many, many resources to help you as well as your loved ones,you can reach me at Davidfeighery6996@gmail.com call 203–885–6522 ask for David

I hope you’ve been able to learn something from my story and i hope i can help you help yourself . God bless you ,and your families thankyou written by David Feighery 09/08/2018

David Feighery

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im an aspiring writer/science major,medical backgroung , guitarist song wrIter and sex addict.