#RedforTyler

09/25/2022

It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Tyler Macleod passed away. September always brings back these memories - of a shocking, grief filled time.

Tyler with the dazzling smile, best friend to everyone he met, the boy who tagged after his brother, loved his baby sister, excelled in athletics had OD.

We were shocked.

Tyler came from a great family. His parents were coaches and volunteers. The ate dinner together, vacationed together.

This shook us to our core. If this could happen to Tyler and his family, it could happen to any family.

The collateral damage, to Tylers family, his friends, the community was both swift and painful. The Macleod family had been involved in everything. Everyone knew Tyler.

In our grief we pulled together and tied Red Ribbons everywhere. In our town, in other states, in Europe and South America.
Ten years later it still hurts.
Tyler should be 28.
It is impossible to know what Tyler might have accomplished in his life. He had such a great personality, he was so loved.

We are still in shock and miss him.
T-MAC Today Make a Change.
Do something kind, play it forward, do it for Tyler.

-Red for Tyler

02/20/2021

How much will kill you?
Read this- and share with anyone it might help.
Do it for Tyler

Fentanyl is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of he**in. Drug users generally don’t know when their he**in is laced with fentanyl, so when they inject their usual quantity of he**in, they can inadvertently take a deadly dose of the substance. Read more from STAT.

02/20/2021

I has been almost 9 years since we lost Tyler and so many, many other young lives. We swore we would make a difference and we would educate, rehabilitate and fix this plague impacting this generation of kids.

But it just continues.

I follow Jodi Barber on Facebook and she is involved in trying to save these young adults and teens. A few days ago, she posted 2 beautiful souls were lost. This happens every week. Someones daughter, someones son, a sibling, a friend. Families left devastated. Communities in mourning.

What struck me in the article is that this (16 year old ) boy was according to him Mother..
"Sheltering at home. A drug dealer connected with him on Snapchat and gave him Fentanyl laced Xanax or Percocet (toxicology will tell) and he overdosed in his room. They do this because it hooks people even more and is good for business but it causes overdose and the kids don't know what they are taking."
This drug dealer DELIVERED like Postmates.
Everyone needs to know how fatal Fentanyl can be. (Our next post will show this even more clearly.)

Relationship therapist and TV host Laura Berman is grieving her teen son who she says died of an overdose from drugs he purchased from someone he connected with on Snapchat, according to her post on social media.

09/15/2019

Happy 25th Heavenly Birthday Tyler 🎂
You Truly bring me Love, Joy & Hope all the proof of Gods Love ❤️ You are a gift from the Heavens 🙏.
Psalm 90:12.
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09/11/2019

Va**ng can't be good for your lungs...

There have now been deaths in Kansas, Indiana, Minnesota, California, Illinois and Oregon

09/04/2019

I have been reading that Opioid deaths are on the decline, but there is a huge spike in fentanyl overdoses. This is what killed Tyler Skaggs the Angels pitcher. Please read this, especially those going to college, where using other kids ADHD meds is common for pulling all-nighters, or exams.

Bryan Dale McKinsey, a pitcher for the Verrado High School baseball team, took a pill he believed was oxycodone and never woke up. The medical examiner’s rep...

05/17/2019

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Here's what va**ng does to your body ... it's NOT pretty.

01/11/2019

What really gets me is the searching on craigslist and finding He**in or M**h? Read this.

"They say it takes a village to raise a child, I'm learning now it also takes a village to bury a child."

11/05/2018

“Fentanyl, the same synthetic opioid that killed Prince in 2016, is 50 times stronger than he**in and typically kills by slowing breathing to the point of death. It is used to treat pain in cancer patients but the street version is often mixed with he**in and co***ne, and ingested by the user unknowingly.”

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said that Mac Miller was found in a "praying position" when his assistant found him. The agency has ruled his death an accidental overdose from fentanyl, co***ne and alcohol.

09/24/2018

9/24/12

Do you remember where you were when you heard that Tyler MacLeod had died?

I was home. I saw a post that another teen had written on facebook - RIP Tyler MacLeod. I tried desperately to reach Nancy. I called Dave everyone I could think of. Could it have been a car accident I had not heard about? Finally, I reached Kim, she confirmed the worst. Tyler had passed.

In shock, I met other Moms at Melindas. Moms whose children had grown up with the MacLeod boys. Barbi, Jennifer we talked, we cried, we were in shock. We tried to make sense of it. How could this happen? We were strong women, raising strong families. We were PTA presidents, coaches, leaders among our children's clubs, team and schools. We were involved. We had educated our children, they knew the evils of drugs. But had we? We had talked about underage drinking, talked about pot - but he**in wasn't on our radar. We never imagined it was in our schools, in backpacks, on our Main Streets. Accessible to anyone with $10.

But here we are 6 years later. We all know kids who have been in rehab, kids who have died, kids who are hooked, kids whose futures are destroyed - sometimes with no other options these kids are on the street, homeless and strung out.

What are we to do? There are heroes among us. Jodi Barber working tirelessly to get kids in rehab, picking kids up off the streets. What can we do as this addiction decimates this young generation? 72,000 last year lost to this. We know the numbers are most likely staggeringly higher, as many deaths get reported in other ways. If an addict dies from pneumonia brought on by he**in, it is not an overdose. The death rate is much higher.

I listened to an expert this past weekend talk about the typical kids getting hooked on he**in. Sometimes they get hurt, a broken bone - and are prescribed painkillers. They get hooked. They need more. They usually raid the home medicine cabinet. When the prescription runs out they buy a few pills @ $80 each. When they can't afford that, and really are looking for the next high - because now they usually need it - they turn to he**in. The high is euphoric. At $10 a bag which can last a few days, it is readily affordable.

At Tyler's funeral, we yelled NEVER AGAIN. We thought we could make a change. We held fundraisers, we tried to educate the younger children. Tragically we were wrong. Drug use has not gone away.

What can we do? Awareness is the one thing we can all share. If we save one child from starting, we can save one family from this nightmare - we have done the right thing. If Tyler's death has taught us anything it is that no one is safe from this, no one.

Please share your stories.

God Bless the MacLeod family.

Red for Tyler ❤️

09/06/2018

"Picture an NFL stadium holding a capacity crowd of 72,000.

That number, according to a preliminary estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is about how many Americans died last year from drug overdoses. An entire stadium full of people.""

Our son Scott fatally overdosed last November. Nothing can bring him back, but I've learned some things that might help others cope with this affliction.

08/27/2018

These aftermarket pills that are either pharmaceuticals that have been altered or synthetically made are bad news. No guarantee what will happen. Demi Lovato was lucky she was found in time, so many are not.

The man who reportedly supplied Demi Lovato with drugs told TMZ the singer "understood fully" what she was taking.

07/20/2018

Who knows what else is in this? Frightening

The US Food and Drug Administration warns that synthetic cannabis laced with rat poison poses a significant health risk to users and the US blood supply.

05/22/2018

This is everyones nightmare and yet it happens every day. Driving under the influence is so preventable with the availability of Uber and Lyft.

Every 15 Minutes, 2018 Ocean View High School, crash re-enactment. Funding and coordination assistance for the Huntington Beach Every 15 Minutes program prov...

05/01/2018

This is frightening how little "liquid ni****ne" it takes to kill.

Long week? Short List. Catch up on news everyone's talking about: Kids drinking e-cigarette liquid, Trump and Mueller, and prom dress outrage.

04/23/2018

Not really surprising...

Fruit flavors have the most chemicals, study finds

04/21/2018

Someone passed around prescription pills at a Grad party, that mixed with alcohol proved deadly.

In one night, the Savage family lost two sons to opioid overdoses. Now, they are working to prevent other families from experiencing the same pain.