This has helped. I hope I m doing some other parent a favor, he says. He wants to repay the parents who also lost a child and shared their stories, inspiring him with their strength in the face of tragedy. And he hopes to encourage those grieving parents still immersed in anger, guilt and despair after losing a child to drugs. We can make a difference, Jones says.
People react in different ways.
Some help in their own way, not publicly. Some just crawl up under a shell and are waiting to die. There is no worse thing for a parent, but you ve just got to fight it. If I have to be the poster child for parents who lose a child to drugs, then so be it, Jones said. He ll do whatever he can to keep other children and their parents from falling into the trap that took Tommy and left his family devastated.