He was arrested in 2013 twice, once for a fight outside Conroe High School and a second time for marijuana.  Now, she is turning to Facebook, starting a support group called “MAH – Mothers Against Heroin” for other moms, hoping to help before it’s too late

A mom says her son was killed by something she had never heard of before, a drug so powerful, it’s seven times more potent than morphine.

174533<strong>10<\/strong>” style=”max-width:430px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;”>”I thought I did everything right and when this happened I asked myself, ‘What I did wrong?'” Mary Elliott, who lost her son Jeremy earlier this year, told CBS affiliate KHOU. </p>
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<p>There’s no cure for this mother’s pain, but there’s a message she hopes will save someone else. </p>
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<p>“My son just tried something and it took a hold of him,” she said. “I just wanted to collapse when he told me if Jeremy ever woke up, he wasn’t going to be the same.” </p>
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<p>Her 21-year-old son, Jeremy Taylor Elliott, overdosed on April 9th. He spent four days in a coma before he died. </p>
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<p>However, it wasn’t until she got his death certificate that she saw heroin and something she had never heard of listed as U-47700. </p>
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<p>“What is this? Is this bath salts?” she said she wondered. </p>
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<p>“(The drug) is anywhere between 7 to 8 times more potent than morphine is,” said Jean Cleary, PharmD., the director at the Southeast Texas Poison Center. </p>
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<p>At the poison center, they know at least three people died from the same drug last year. It’s called “Pink” on the street. </p>
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<p>A pharmaceutical company developed the drug in the 1970’s to treat severe pain, but problems with side effects kept it off the market. </p>
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<p>However, there is plenty of it for sale online. </p>
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<p>“Most of it comes from China,” said Cleary. </p>
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<p>“There’s been seven <a href=overdoses that I know of,” said Elliott.

This mom knows her son was no stranger to the law. He was arrested in 2013 twice, once for a fight outside Conroe High School and a second time for marijuana. 

Now, 울진콜걸 she is turning to Facebook, starting a support group called “MAH – Mothers Against Heroin” for other moms, hoping to help before it’s too late.

“If it can just save one person, just one, and save one mother from the pain that I feel, it’s worth it,” said Elliott.

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