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Dad overdoses on heroin to teach his addict son a lesson
A FATHER was so angry when he found his heroin addict son’s stash that he shot it up himself and almost died of an overdose — just to send a message to his kid.
New York-based father Sergey Gnatovskiy, 45, told The NY Post he had reached breaking point.
“I [tried] to send him to rehab. He promised me he was going to go, and I found it again,” Sergey said.
“I told him if you’re not going to stop, I will do the same as you do.”
But the risky life lesson seems to have worked — son Maykl, 23, claims he’s been scared straight back to rehab after finding his dad passed out on their living room floor on Wednesday afternoon.
“After seeing this I definitely want to go. I’ve been doing this since I was 15. I’m 23 now, I can’t keep doing this,” he said.
Maykl said he instantly recognised that his dad was overdosing, and used CPR and Narcan nasal spray to bring him back from the brink — something Sergey has had to do for his son on four separate occasions.
The elder Gnatovskiy said he felt normal the next day and doesn’t recall much of the ordeal — he remembers going to turn off the TV and then waking up with “medical people” around him.
“My son was screaming at me, ‘Pop, pop, are you crazy, you almost died,’” he said.
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...n/news-story/d131a69c5fb6617f24924b4ff9bfd230
A FATHER was so angry when he found his heroin addict son’s stash that he shot it up himself and almost died of an overdose — just to send a message to his kid.
New York-based father Sergey Gnatovskiy, 45, told The NY Post he had reached breaking point.
“I [tried] to send him to rehab. He promised me he was going to go, and I found it again,” Sergey said.
“I told him if you’re not going to stop, I will do the same as you do.”
But the risky life lesson seems to have worked — son Maykl, 23, claims he’s been scared straight back to rehab after finding his dad passed out on their living room floor on Wednesday afternoon.
“After seeing this I definitely want to go. I’ve been doing this since I was 15. I’m 23 now, I can’t keep doing this,” he said.
Maykl said he instantly recognised that his dad was overdosing, and used CPR and Narcan nasal spray to bring him back from the brink — something Sergey has had to do for his son on four separate occasions.
The elder Gnatovskiy said he felt normal the next day and doesn’t recall much of the ordeal — he remembers going to turn off the TV and then waking up with “medical people” around him.
“My son was screaming at me, ‘Pop, pop, are you crazy, you almost died,’” he said.
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...n/news-story/d131a69c5fb6617f24924b4ff9bfd230