project My Sisters Keeper would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with individuals and organizations committed to promoting the Promise of Prevention, advocating the Hope of Recovery, and Healing the Stigma of Addiction and Mental Illness.

Since the tragic accidental prescription drug overdose death of my older sister, Tammy Marie Boyet-Sawyer on January 22nd, 2009, I have felt compelled to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to prevent another woman, teen or girl, their children and families from living the nightmare of or losing their life to the deadly and indiscriminate epidemic of prescription drug addiction and prescription drug overdose.

For anyone familiar with addiction and addiction recovery, we have all no doubt heard the term "rock bottom".

Families of addicts who are desperate to save their loved one are commonly told that for an addict to want to get treatment THEY MUST REACH "ROCK BOTTOM".

For an addict, their rock bottom is usually the place where the seriousness of their situation is finally realized. It is the place where they are no longer able to live in denial of the situation.

Given the present state of the prescription drug epidemic, it's history and the FACT that the number of citizens of our nation who are currently battling with or have become casualties of this disease continues to grow at such an alarming rate, I implore ALL of us to ask and answer this question, where is our "ROCK BOTTOM?

When do we as women and men, citizens and leaders stand up in a unified voice and say that WE WILL NO LONGER ENABLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADDICTION in the United States?

We owe it to ourselves, those afflicted, those lost and their families to demand a commitment to NO LONGER ACCEPT IGNORANCE, STIGMA, APATHY and a LACK OF OVERALL RESOURCES as acceptable excuses for INACTION.

We must ask ourselves how many more mothers, daughters & sisters we are willing to lose to prescription drug addiction & accidental overdose?

How many more women, children and fami