tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173335605499289234.post1673833723250892862..comments2023-07-07T03:55:02.959-04:00Comments on ACE's Inhalant Abuse Report Blog: Army Veteran Dies After Years of HuffingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016235678609174052noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173335605499289234.post-16852127244342728682014-01-25T16:39:50.630-05:002014-01-25T16:39:50.630-05:00Aaron had moved to Nashville in 2012 and came to s...Aaron had moved to Nashville in 2012 and came to stay with me. Once he got here he had started to disappear, and several times called me from hospitals claiming he'd been mugged, or in car accidents. After a google search I realized what he was doing. I took him to AA meetings, and to rehab at the VA over and over. <br /><br />He stole my car, and I received a call from the mental ward at the VA to come get my keys. Aaron made up stories about an IED explosion, and about other things that had supposedly happened while he was deployed. I keep in contact with his ex wife, and we've now realized that the stories he told as an excuse for his drug abuse were merely stories. <br /><br />It broke my heart watching him go thru these things, but after six weeks of crying, begging him to stay sober, assisting, paying for his room and board, I simply had to remove myself from his world in order to keep my job and my home. <br /><br />I met Aaron in 2004, and we'd stayed friends the entire time he was married. We dated on and off before his marriage, and the one final time after his marriage, up until I discovered how careless he was. I picked him up from at least six hospitals over a six week period. I'd reached out to his parents, and truly did everything I could to get him into rehab, and to be a friend. After dozens and dozens of lies, and him inviting another woman into my home, I had to walk away. <br /><br />Addiction is horrible.... Aaron meant well, but he just could not beat his addiction. It still breaks my heart to know the pain he was in. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com