Ex-cop who helped police with addiction dies in CVS parking lot
One of the BIGGEST things that our bureaucracy professes as the MEANS to keep people from abusing some substance and becoming addicted.. is EDUCATION… It is hard to argue that this cop was very knowledgeable about substance abuse and addiction and yet he succumb to his genetic inclination of becoming addicted to Heroin… Shouldn’t we look at this example as a STRONG SUGGESTION that EDUCATION is not a end all…be all… to stop abuse/addiction to some substance ?
A 28-year veteran with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Terry Marvin used to bust drug dealers for a living. He later helped open a treatment center to help first responders with addiction problems.
But Marvin also battled his own addiction demons for years. On June 23, 2015, he died in his Chevy Camaro in front of a CVS pharmacy in West Palm Beach after overdosing on heroin. He was 56.
“I knew Terry’s drug of choice was alcohol. How the hell did he get to heroin? That’s like leaping football fields,’’ his friend Sean Riley wrote in a blog post, “but with the disease of addiction there is no logic, excuses or explanations for the things we do.’’
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