Many people do not know that the disease of addiction does not discriminate. Addiction can affect anyone from any background. This brave former police officer tells his story with the permission of the Sheriff’s department to share his story with WGBH News.
Former police Lieutenant Thomas Foye had more than 26 years with the Ludlow police department in Massachusetts. He says that a surgery to correct a shoulder injury is what triggered his addiction to prescription painkillers. It was then that his life changed and he was eventually arrested for drug use.
Foye says that he was “caught red handed with drugs,” after a video feed surfaced of the former officer taking cocaine and prescription drugs from an evidence room located at the Ludlow police department. He was sentenced to two years in jail following his arrest.
In his interview with WGBH Foye says that, “the life that I lived was full of accomplishments, it was full of family…the good things in life that one would think would immunize you from becoming a drug addict.” He laments that he never thought that he would be “susceptible to [this] kind of disease.”
Foye now shares his story with family members, peers, relatives and in public forums. His courageous efforts to speak out about his disease allows for others to know and understand that addiction can affect anyone.
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