Justin Thompson

Every day, a shattered family posts an obituary for a loved one lost to a drug overdose. Today it’s Justin M. Thompson’s family in Moses Lake, Washington. Justin was 11 days shy of his 32nd birthday and was “caught up in the drug epidemic and perished from an accidental overdose.” In choosing to disclose Justin’s cause of death, the Bersanti and Thompson family helps humanize the opioid epidemic. And putting a human face on things changes hearts and minds in powerful ways. Heroin, meth or fentanyl didn’t love Justin, it controlled him; it owned him. It skewed his reality and numbed his heart. It mocked his every attempt to be free, reeling him in like a fish, hooked by the hollow point of a disposable needle. Our family asks that you realize that no one is immune to the epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction that encumbers our culture.