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I didn't know that James had ever done heroin until he ODed for the first time I got a call that he was taken by
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ambulance to the hospital and that he was you know unconscious and I got into the room and they told me that he
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overdosed on heroin that's when I first knew my name is Jeff lindblum and my son
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is James lindblum I only know of one person that I grew up with that died of heroin um one person
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and my son so far he's had nine we watch news and news programs and they talk about all this that it's out
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there and it's on the streets but never thinking even the kids in the neighborhood nothing more difficult than
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walking seeing your kid not in his bedroom knowing that he's home and walking downstairs into the office and
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seeing him slumped in front of a chair not knowing if he's alive and there's needles sitting out on that
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desk nothing can explain that nothing it's not like the house is cleaned out one day you know a little
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bit here a little bit there a little bit here a little bit there I'd heard even from James himself saying that other
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boys were you know staging robberies in their own home so that they could steal their stuff and sell it and not get in
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trouble I have cried I have prayed my family my wife and I have both cried both prayed
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both done everything we possibly can to give him the opportunity whether it be through um
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medical programs educational programs support programs just love to help him we have done everything we possibly
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could