I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Soberful podcast.

And I am joined today by Cammy Wolf Rice.

Hi, Cammy.

Hi, Veronica.

It's really nice to meet you. Cammy reached out to me

on Instagram and when I checked it out, I was like, oh yes, oh yes, I want to speak to this woman.

I want to hear her story. Cammy is a philanthropist, an activist and a speaker and I think an accidental activist. Why don't you tell us about your

foundation and why you're here and what brought you to this work? Thank you, Veronica,

and I appreciate the platform to share all the wonderful work that's happening. So unfortunately,

it starts with a tragedy. My son, Christopher, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and had a major

surgery his senior year in high school. It happened to be at the exact same time that Purdue

Pharma released the wonder drug, OxyContin. And we went home with 90, followed by 90 more. And one prescription hijacked his brain.

And this was a kid that was, he had aspirations to be a Navy SEAL, super disciplined, AP student, you know, just a powerful, powerful, amazing kid.

And it hijacked his life and mine. And I did exactly what the doctors told me to do. And that was to give them to him every four hours.

And he was in pain. But there was nobody to talk about the mental side of being ill. There was

nobody to warn us of the dangers of being

on opioids and my God to go home with 90 of them. And so he fought it for 14 plus years, managed to

still graduate college, but I lost him February 26, 2016. And for two years, Veronica, I kept very, very quiet because of the stigma

and as sad as it sounds. I wanted my son to have a respectable death. Okay. So he got addicted to

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