Joey whynaught died

We had a special connection. She told me she was happy and proud. I told her to let him know that I loved him and was proud of him too.

I think the urge I felt was God tapping me on the shoulder to prepare me for what was coming. Sam cared about others and had a loving spirit. He worked two jobs and went to school full time when he passed. As a newborn he was kicked out of the nursery because of his piercing cry. Always on the move, he had to be where the action was. With his quick wit and charm he had many friends. When he left us, he took a piece of many hearts with him. Snowboarding and wakeboarding were his passions.

He was a great writer, enjoyed politics and history but struggled with math. Sam loved to give hugs and was very affectionate. Prescription drugs can kill. Please learn from his mistake. Live in the truth, it will set you free. Nolan was born July 22, and passed away January 16, at age Nolan loved everything about the water. Sailing on our sail boat, fishing, bodysurfing, and surfing. He was an awesome street Hockey player. He was very loyal to his friends and family.

He was a great son. Very loving. On March 9, , a very special child was born to the Rovero family. Initially, we had planned to name him Daniel, but as his birth grew closer, his father decided that he wanted him to carry on the family name, so he became Joseph John Rovero, III. Joey was a very happy baby, toddler and youngster who took an immediate liking to sports of all kinds. He started playing soccer when he was 4 years old and spent his last years of playing that sport as a member of the San Ramon Force, an elite traveling team that took us to tournaments throughout the state.

By 8th grade, we finally gave into his demands Joey in preschool that he trade soccer in for football, Joey never looked back.

His key criterion was really very simple — it needed to be a PAC football school and good weather was a must. He was very excited when he received an early acceptance to attend ASU and was on target to graduate this summer.

None of the individual levels of these substances was lethal, but each of them are central nervous system depressants and collectively, they shut down his breathing. Joey simply went to sleep and never woke up. One pill or drink meant the difference between life or death for him.

All we have left are our wonderful memories and the pictures and videos we took of him as he grew up. We are so thankful for those. Joey had such a bright future ahead of him. What a shame that he threw it all away for one night of fun. He paid the ultimate price for the bad choices he made that night. He was smart and funny, and had a magnetic personality that attracted an amazing variety of friends.

Just five more months and he would have graduated and moved on to the next chapter of his life. We miss Joey more than I can adequately express. He was such an important member of our family. However, we trust that Joseph John Rovero, III is in a better place now and we pray that we will be reunited with him someday. To think otherwise is just too painful to consider. We sincerely hope that the awareness we generate about the dangers of prescription drug abuse will save other families and friends from the devastating loss we have experienced.

At least then, something positive will have come from the death of our precious son. He was called home on May 25, at the young age of Mark grew up in Laguna Niguel.

He loved people, and loved to make people laugh and smile. At the very young age of 5, he started playing football, and for many years was on the Patriot football team of Laguna Niguel. He had the time of his life playing football with all of his friends. He loved the sense of belonging to a football family, and he was the captain for many years, and always encouraged the team to do their best.

He also loved music very much. Mark had so many dreams for his future. He wanted to be a pilot, an attorney, a professional DJ, own his own clothing line, etc… He had such a passion for life and was always smiling and cracking jokes with everybody. He would tell me, that he wanted to someday have a family, and have lots of kids and pets.

He wanted to live and have a great and happy life. I believed him. But one day…he made a bad choice. The shame surrounding addiction to prescription drugs — not to mention the lingering stigma of heroin — has been a major factor in stymieing efforts to educate the public about the problem.

For the most part, Jodi Barber said, parents are reluctant to admit that their children are struggling, even after their deaths. They need to start trying to save another family from going through the devastation that so many are experiencing. But she says she has faced pushback from some parents and school officials who are opposed to bringing up the topic in an explicit manner.

And along with members of a group called Mothers Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Jodi Barber is calling for federal legislative action.

Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif. But for many of those in the trenches, political remedies offer little immediate help. Often these days, he retreats to the ocean, where he can lose himself in the surf and try to focus on staying sober.

For more, visit www. Lively and in-depth discussions of city news, politics, science, entertainment, the arts, and more. Reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussion. Drug treatment experts and public health officials say they are seeing an increase in heroin use that is accompanying the rise in prescription opioid abuse among young people.

Macphee, 23, said he turned to heroin after a seven-pills-a-day addiction to prescription drugs. Daniel A. Kinsey struggled with his addiction and found strength to overcome his addiction at the beaches of Laguna Beach. She became sober this year.

Robert Winokur, emergency medical services director, Mission Hospital, lost a young adult in his emergency room recently. The person was huffing and using heroin. Listen to story Download this story 2MB. From addiction to overdose Many parents fight desperately to help their children overcome opiate addiction, but some lose the battle.

AirTalk With Larry Mantle Weekdays 10 am - 12 pm Lively and in-depth discussions of city news, politics, science, entertainment, the arts, and more. Macphee and other recovering addicts told us they crossed the threshold from prescription drugs to heroin when their addiction reached five pills a day or more.

At that level, Mexican black-tar heroin, abundant in California, is a cheaper high. And a gram of heroin could last you three or four days. One pill could last you a couple of hours. Few hard statistics are available on the number of young people in California moving to heroin from pills. But interviews with drug treatment experts, doctors and other public health officials suggest a marked increase in heroin use. Popping or snorting prescription narcotics is dangerous, but injecting heroin directly into the bloodstream is a fatal shock to some young bodies, especially if pills are also in the system, Winokur said.

This kind of drug abuse is not limited to Orange County.