Seth Bramley had a lot of talent. He was an artist, liked crafts, played the saxophone, could cook a wonderful shrimp scampi, and had been on the football team.

When he changed high schools in 10 th grade, his new friends introduced him to alcohol and marijuana. That was also when he started to get into trouble. His mom and he thought it would be a good idea to change his environment and go to Arkansas to live with his dad. But that didn’t work. After a month, Seth’s dad caught him smoking pot and sent him back home.

Seth realized that he had a drug problem, and went to rehab. He did well, although it was very hard on him and he wanted a different program. He went to another rehab, graduated and went to a half-way house. But the grip of addiction was still there. He told his mom, “Mom, I so much want to live….I don’t want to get high, but I just can’t stop.” On Father’s Day, Seth came home for a visit and got high with friends.

Giving up wasn’t Seth’s way, so he told his mom he wanted to get his life back on track and go back to southern California to live with this grandmother. He was there for two days. He went to dinner with his mom and grandmother on Friday night. On Sunday morning, he died after “bagging” a can of shaving gel.

His family didn’t know anything about inhalants. The rehabs didn’t address the issue of “huffing,” where users inhale the propellants in aerosol products. Seth just wanted to get high again. He was 19 years old.

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