Drug Overdose Prayer for Victims and Families

Dear God of All,

We come to you grieving with broken hearts over our loved one who has become the victim of an overdose. Our sorrow knows no depths as we consider the preciousness of the life lost and the cruelty of the addition and the terrible accident that robbed them of a good life and cause their death.

Those of us left behind feel victimized ourselves. We feel helpless because we have been robbed of huge pieces of our own life and our future by this merciless disease.

Despite our sorrow, we pray for the strength to choose life. We choose to affirm the goodness and sacredness of the life of our loved one. We acknowledge their worth in your sight and we hold onto our love for them even through the pain. We pray that you will remove all traces of regret, guilt and shame from our hearts and minds. We pray your forgiveness and mercy over every difficult incident between us and our loved one that was caused by the addiction. You know the road we have walked and how often we have felt that we should be doing one more thing to help, prevent or rescue. We lay this entire journey at your feet and offer it up to you as our baptism into the suffering of Christ, believing that we did the best we could and that this is all that you ask of us.