"He was transported to an Austin-area hospital, where the damage became clear: JB had sustained a brain injury and severe damage to his liver and kidneys. By the standard measures of America's opioid crisis, JB was one of the lucky ones. He did not get added to the nation's tally of overdose opioids deaths an estimated 55,000 in 2024, and more than 1m over the past 20 years. But having survived, the 30-year-old now lives with life-changing injuries."
"Jessica started calling his friends, all of whom had lost track of him the previous night. Then she received a message on Instagram: URGENT, it said, next to a phone number. Call now. JB had overdosed on fentanyl and had been found unresponsive in a friend's apartment. No one knew how long he had been without sufficient oxygen. He was transported to an Austin-area hospital, where the damage became clear: JB had sustained a brain injury and severe damage to his liver and kidneys."
John-Bryan 'JB' Jarrett overdosed on fentanyl on Labor Day weekend 2020 after a night when friends had lost track of him. He was found unresponsive in a friend's apartment and transported to an Austin-area hospital, where doctors identified severe brain injury and extensive liver and kidney damage. He survived but now, five years later, cannot walk, talk, move reliably, swallow, or communicate. His mother, Jessica Pizzitola Jarrett, moved in to provide near round-the-clock care, sleeps in his bedroom closet, and feeds him through a feeding tube. Recent medical setbacks have further worsened his condition.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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