Pain Won

Last night addiction claimed a life. I'm sure it claimed many lives that day, but today it claimed the life of family. Of a young man who struggled the entirity of his short life. Whether addiction was the cause of his death or the consequence of a mental health issue which he self medicated, we don't know yet. And we may never know. And in the end, it doesn't matter. Someone's baby boy died last night. Some mother had her worst nightmare become her reality last night. Some teenage kid found his step brother dead on the floor. The end nobody wanted but everyone feared, it happened. Last night pain won.