We’re hearing for the first time from the father of a University of Alabama graduate who died when investigators say he overdosed on cocaine that was laced with fentanyl.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Tom went to the University of Alabama for college because he wanted to experience life on a Southern campus, and that’s where he met the fraternity brothers that he reunited with in May in Santa Rosa Beach Florida for a bachelor party.
The doctor called Bob and Pam and said, “It looks like he’s got some brain damage. I don’t think he’s gonna make it. Do you want us to keep him alive till you get here?”Bob recalled, “They all basically say that’s it. His brain is swollen, and it’s pushed through his brainstem. So, I call my friend Vic, Dr. Vic. He starts crying on the phone. Well, I knew what the answer was then.
Bob continued, “Cocaine all my life was a recreational drug - you do some at a bachelor party - it’s like somebody saying, ‘Hey, you want a shot of Jack Daniels?’ and you die. That’s what this was. Can you say it would all be zero tolerance? Well, what would Tom’s wish be? As I said in Tom’s obituary, you should never, no one should ever, ingest anything - food, drinks, anything that they don’t know where it came from, period end of story.
Now, Bob says he’s talking about Tom’s life and loss because he’s learning how deeply fentanyl overdoses have impacted so many other families – like those of the more than 300 people in Jefferson County alone who’ve died from a fentanyl overdose this year including 101 from fentanyl-laced cocaine.
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