November 2023

Austin Majors. Love, Peace, Joy, Light, HOPE. Austin had an energy that was both magnetic and fulfilling. As a child, when asked by reporters to describe Austin I would say, “Austin is larger than life.  Expect the unexpected.” Austin was so loving, funny, creative, kind, artistic, witty, patient, a very deep thinker and very empathetic.  Only when this unimaginable evil, Fentanyl, was finished torturing Austin was he set free. An invisible threat that we did not even know existed.  It’s 2013 and he had made it into USC School of Cinematic Arts, his dream school, and the world is his. This is the last phase of life before you have to get serious. Much deserved, new found FREEDOM!!! Wooo Hooo! Have fun while you can. You’ve got the rest of your life to worry about life. It’s the most carefree, celebratory time of his life. He and his peers have dreamed about this and seen it play out in some of their favorite movies. Little does anyone know that they are being targeted by sinister groups and adversary countries.

As a baby Austin loved people and people were his toys. Companionship was like oxygen for Austin. As a young child Austin was getting to play the role of ‘Theo Sipowicz’ on “NYPD Blue” for 7 seasons and be surrounded by loving supportive people in an environment that was creative and stimulating for him. Austin went on to star in multiple movies, voice acting for Disney characters in movies, TV shows and 65 national commercials.  Austin and I were very like minded and shared the same sense of constant humor. We turned everything into a whimsical reality.  Every day was an adventure and a blessing. At a young age Austin and I  knew we were very intuitive with each other and could easily communicate without speaking. Many times throughout Austin’s childhood I was approached by strangers and told, “You need to have him tested.” A few handed me a card, giving me instructions how to get ahold of an expert they knew. I politely took the card and put it in the back of a drawer. I knew Austin was bright…and interesting…and different, often referred to as ‘an old soul.’ He had answers that someone his age should not know so often that I joked, “I don’t know how he knows that, he would be a good argument for reincarnation.”  Austin and his little sister Kali grew up on our ranch and attended regular school in our little ranch town just North of Los Angeles. Like her big brother, Kali happily joined in on the acting and film making. The plan was to finish college then have their own production company and make films telling the stories for the underdog. They wanted to give a voice to those who didn’t have one in an entertaining way. We were a great team. Most days after school we would go to Hollywood and Santa Monica for auditions. There was usually the same acting friends, casting directors, homeless friends (outside)at all of the auditions. (this was 1999-2011, back when drugs were drugs and Los Angeles was recognizable).  Dinner often consisted of passing out jackets and blankets we would collect and having one of the homeless guys order a meal of their choice that was in line for napkins and ketchup packets. Austin was very emotional about the needs of the people he would see wandering on the streets.  Austin loved the wholesomeness of everything Disney and Disneyland. Favorite place ever! That, he never grew out of. Austin was so happy and proud to be a part of the Disney family.

After skipping a grade and graduating 2nd in his high school class Austin attended and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Directing/Production at the University of Southern California USC’s School of Cinematic Arts from 2013-2017. At 17 years old and my encouragement he joined his fraternity brotherhood of ATO (Alpha Tau Omega). The brochures and paperwork said ATO was a fraternity to make lifelong business networking connections, and participated in charity work while building leadership skills. This sounded like a continuation of the backpacking Boy Scouts troop that Austin grew up participating in. Austin was proud to attained the rank of Eagle Scout.  Austin was VERY Patriotic and considered going into the military. I convinced him to hold off until he had his degree so he would be an Officer. Besides, he wanted to be a pilot. Since we always volunteered for charity work in Hollywood and furthering leadership skills, the fraternity sounded like a good fit. After joining he spoke of the chaplain or support position that he wanted work up to in order to help support people.  Unfortunately, all of what was advertised was a lie and none of it was done. Instead constant drugs and alcohol was provided and encouraged. Peer pressure began to interfere and isolate Austin from Kali and I.  A few of the young men told me that they are still in therapy from their ATO experience.  At Austin’s funeral a couple of his ATO Brothers said,” Austin was the brightest light they have ever seen.” When the Los Angeles County  Medical Examiner called me the night Austin was killed February 11 2023, that’s what helped to identify him. He died in his USC shirt and had his ATO mug on his shelf next to his bed. In his paperwork I found a piece of paper with the number and notes from speaking to a military officer recruiter. That’s another dream stolen from him.

 About 2013 the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) started seeing all party drugs like marijuana, Adderall, Xanax, Meth, Molly, Cocaine, etc. being secretly laced with the synthetic opioid Fentanyl. It was 50X stronger than heroin and 100X stronger than morphine. This is when addiction and overdoses started to rise alarmingly fast across the United States. A Nation of young people being chemically restrained, deceived, poisoned. The United States’ best and brightest college students, America’s future now have been unknowingly, repeatedly exposed to Fentanyl that hijacks and takes the brain hostage. Forever an addiction more severe than has ever been seen. No medical system is set up to help these US citizens that have been repeatedly exposed to these chemicals that have been used in chemical warfare. This is being done TO them. Fentanyl renders the enemy helpless. It depresses the respiratory system and paralyzes the muscles used for breathing and the enemy suffocates. Paralyzation of your respiratory muscles comes first sometimes. Unconsciousness can come after they have been suffering respiratory depression for four minutes.That’s why sometimes there is the ‘Fentanyl death pose’ of clenched fists, arms and rigid chest where the victim is fighting to take a breath. No one is protecting the kids from their immaturity, ignorance and the outdated cultural expectations of ‘college life’ in the United States. Their inexperience doesn’t tell them that this is not normal or dangerous. Although the DEA is posting these warnings on their website the US, the mainstream media, CDC or US government is ignoring the DEA and rarely mentioning it, leaving the country unaware. The DEA is finding that 7 out of 10 drugs are laced with fentanyl. The majority of people using party drugs are being exposed to highly addictive Fentanyl. Any exposure triggers the addiction and takes the brain hostage. In 2013 eleven Doctors write letters desperately warning, trying to get President Obama/ VP Biden to warn the US Citizens but President Obama/VP Biden keeps the information secret and he refuses to warn us or take action to stop it from happening.Your main duty as Commander in Chief is to ensure for the welfare and safety of your US Citizens. Your allegiance is obviously not to the United States . Allowing our American kids to be secretly poisoned and killed on their own soil with chemical weapons from adversary countries that you are  1.warned about  2. keep it secret  3. refuse to have all of the government agencies, that we pay for,  take action against makes your actions by definition treason. (see attached Washington Post article, “The Fentanyl Failure”)

As Austin’s mom, a former US military Navy Intelligence Photographer and as an RN, I have been actively trying to figure out what is happening to Austin and how to help him. Since 2013 he is progressively getting worse through 2017 when he graduated. From 2017-2023 life spirals. Nothing I do will work. I’m seeing behavior and actions that have never been demonstrated by Austin. During this journey I go to ALANON meetings and I hear stories of the exact same behaviors and actions that are unlike their loved one. I’m speaking to law enforcement asking them what they are witnessing and hearing the same story. They say, “There are chemicals on the weed and all other drugs that are making people have psychosis.” “Then others are like zombies…I don’t know what they are on.” I heard that they are putting chemicals on the marijuana that can bring out schizophrenia in young adults. Now they are unknowingly getting  ‘poly-substance’ where many different drugs are present for wildly unpredictable results.  For Austin mental illness is ruled out. Austin’s voluntary stay in a mental hospital for a week for observation and diagnosis confirmed it is the drugs/chemicals causing his behavior. The doctor and nurses said to me, “There is nothing wrong with him, we are not giving him any medication. He is really smart. He can talk about anything forever.” I wasn’t sure if I was relieved or disappointed. At least we would have help for that disease if he had a mental illness. But since it is addiction/Substance Use Disorder (SUD) we are right back at square one. The cycle continues and the drugs/chemicals rule with chaos. Every attempt to get Austin into rehab is sabotaged. The people around him and their selfishness, interference, ignorance and betrayal. Austin wanted to legally change his last name like his little sister did after she turned 18. Four days before Austin was killed he identified (published) himself as Austin Majors to the news/newspaper with Karen Bass and Jeff Olivet at ‘First Care Village’ in a DTLA homeless facility. Life is a living hell for Austin and I am paralyzed in fear. Unable to succeed at every attempt of saving him. For years he often wore a black over-shirt with white letters HOPE on his back. That’s who Austin was. Trying to give others encouragement and checking on others while he was in hell with them. That’s what he was doing the day he died. That’s what made him feel better. He was feeling alone and sad Feb 11, 2023 because he had organized a field trip to the Los Angeles Broad Art Museum for the residence at his housing facility – but nobody showed up. Later he called a couple of old friends and nobody answered. He checked to see if other friends were ok by text. Nobody responded. Just outside of their gate awaits the drug/death dealers preying on this vulnerable population. No police in sight in this HIDA (High Intensity Drug Area). No safe use/harm reduction/ MAT (medication assisted treatment) information readings posted anywhere. No Rehab Mentors or Church organizations around offering encouragement or MENTORING. NO AA sponsors available.  RC St. Ann’s Priest refuses to talk to me or Austin. (but yet during church they say they pray for ‘them– the addicted and homeless’.  Let me tell you- the devil is doing more than praying on it. So I suggest you jump in the ring and start fighting for them in the name of GOD. ‘Them‘ are GOD’s children! Trust me, GOD is watching.  The stigma in his church is real. They wouldn’t even show up to lead the praying of the Rosary for Austin before his funeral service. Thankfully my childhood friend Father Vaughn traveled to lead Austin’s funeral for us.) Boy Scout leaders refuse to talk or mentor Austin. NOBODY will help. The employees at the Los Angeles ‘First Care Village’ living facility are prohibited from speaking to the residents about drug use.  There is No Narcan on LACounty employees or the manager in 2023. This is how Los Angeles County is decreasing the homeless population numbers. When Austin was found not breathing that afternoon by an employee she told me, “He just looked like he was sleeping.” I have his beautiful text letter that he wrote to his girlfriend with the timestamp that afternoon. I have the computer activity with time stamps from that evening. I can see that he had just downloaded Disney to watch “Top Gun 2”. His water bottle and favorite salt and vinegar chips still lay on his chest.  Why did Los Angeles County not give you Narcan in 2023? Nobody thought Austin was worth giving Narcan to. Toxicology report found it was a laced Vicodin that gave Austin the title of “Fentanyl Overdose”.  It would have only taken 1 Narcan puff. Nobody checked to see if he had a pulse or gave him respirations. When the police arrived from 2 blocks away they did not give him a puff of Narcan either. Why did you not do your job and administer Narcan to Austin? LA County Health Department said years ago to give Narcan. In DC 2018 Congressional Reports and Karen Bass say how important Narcan is to give. Mayor Karen Bass – how, in 2023,  does the newest LA facility that you are showing off to the Biden Administration’s homeless leader Jeff Olivet not have any Narcan to give its residents? Especially when you allow the death dealers to prey on them from their fence? Do you even remember Austin walking with you that day? Austin and all the others there lives matter. NONE of this makes any sense!  5 YEARS after you spoke on how dangerous Fentanyl is to Congress,  5 YEARS!  You know the letter you read in your 2018 Congressional meeting discussed the facts that the party drugs are being secretly laced with HIGHLY ADDICTIVE and Deadly Fentanyl by China as a chemical weapon and everyone must be started on Buprenorphine immediately to save them! How are you not warning us and telling us so we can protect and save our kids? Why are you withholding this treatment and cure? Why are you withholding Narcan from the homeless residents while you also withhold the MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment)? You are creating the homeless problem. You are creating the drug and addiction epidemic. Where is all of the homeless and addiction reduction funding going to? Then, you shamed their legacy.  Families won’t even talk about them or pretend that they existed. When the TRUTH is that they can’t function because of the highly addictive chemicals that they were unknowingly exposed to in high school or college when they were experimenting.  The LAC Hospitals won’t help them. They are forced to self medicate with a pill to stop suffering from the withdrawal symptoms and then die from one laced pill. Then its reported that they “Overdosed on Fentanyl”. Why Mayor Bass is Austin Addicted AT YOU and HIS Los Angeles alma matter of USC? Do you know how much it cost for him to go to school there? No you get favors and are given free tuition. He literally worked his entire life to pay for his college tuition. Only to have his life ruined and killed by a threat that in 2013 President Obama/VP Biden refused to warn us about the secret lacing of the party drugs. This is why Fentanyl is the number one killer of kids and young adults for years! Its the secret lacing! People aren’t usually doing Fentanyl on purpose that are dying. You all clearly knew about, but withheld this life saving information! You were urged in the 2018 Congressional meeting by the Doctors in the meeting and chose to not tell us parents or the students themselves. Why did you not disclosed to the minor or adult students for any of the 5 years he attended USC?  The majority of people that die from Fentanyl Overdose do not do Fentanyl. 

After the LAC Medical Examiner and One Legacy Organ Donation called, TMZ called me to confirm that Austin was killed from Fentanyl Overdose. I asked him if he could let me talk to his sister Kali first and I’ll call him back. I hung up, unprepared. Kali and I have been so isolated in this battle alone for so long I didn’t even think anyone knew or cared who Austin was anymore.It’s been such a dark, confusing journey. Nothing has been making sense about this. After I was finally successful into getting him into Action Rehab towards the end of the pandemic, the first night about midnight his unlicensed intake handler kicked him out in the farm fields 30 miles to the closest town. Being a recovered SUD person from the 1990’s drugs does not make you any where near qualified to heal people exposed to these 2013- present day synthetic chemicals. These outdated talk-treatments with expectations of ‘toughing it out’ for recovery is killing our family members now! Fentanyl is a game changer.  Science based facts is that they HAVE TO BE WEANED from these synthetic chemicals. Your brain can not live without the MAT (medication assisted treatment). Please stop shaming them from getting the treatment needed for success. Please educate yourselves and put the science facts and humanity before money and profit. When they took my money and kicked Austin out his first night they never notified me. How is it ethically, morally or legally OK to kick a human suffering from a drug induced psychosis out into the streets from a medical facility? Is is legal to kick people out if someone if suffering from strange behavior brought on by diabetic high blood sugar emergency? The reason you all, including hospitals, are getting away with it is because they cant fight for themselves and our society teaches us to kick them out. This is wrong and deadly since 2013. You hide behind HIPPA laws. His first night there…. was he being detoxed and given Medication Assisted Treatment? I assumed he was. Obviously that is common sense. I trusted what your facility said on its website. Was he suppose to have had good normal behavior? The secretly laced drugs are chemical weapons without them knowing it and their behavior is not OK. Thats why we need places like MAT(Medication Assisted Treatment) REHAB to be licensed, professional and help them with what the doctors in the 2018 congressional meetings are saying needs to be done to help them. The NIH also says Buprenorphine is highly effective but not being used.  Another time about 2021 Austin called 911 for confusion/psychosis for himself and LAFD took him to Antelope Valley Hospital with mental health facilities. The ER staff security beat Austin up and kicked him out on the street. How could you do this?!?!?! I bet you all had a good laugh and share funny stories to tell about all the trash addicts that you beat the crap out of back into the gutter where they belong. I see that in 2025  your town Mayor Rex Parris is bold and proud of his ignorance at the city council meeting publicly saying, “I want to give THEM as much Fentanyl as they want and do a Purge to get rid of them.” Nobody on the Board reacted. What do you say behind closed doors?  Recognize what the adversary countries  are doing to our college kids and help them!  He was brought to the hospital for confusion/psychosis, it is expected that he would not be behaving normal. You are the LA County Mental Health hospital. Substance use disorder is a known mental health disease. The brain is an organ. Do your job! Just because they are unable to have a voice in fighting for their own care doesn’t mean that you should be allowed to withhold medical treatment and commit assault and battery. STOP hiding behind HIPPA Laws. They are not doing this having fun. They have a disease caused by the secretly laced drugs that are being allowed to come in. This is being done to them. President Obama/VP Biden refused to warn us of the truth. They need compassion and medical help. This was 30 miles from his car in a storm with no jacket or shoes, and confusion/psychosis. He didn’t know where to go. They called the police and arrested him for trespassing at the hospital. His booking photo shows how the ER Security beat him up. The jail (further from home)booked him and released.  I found all this out the next day trying to find him. The jailer said it was raining and cold, he didn’t have shoes or jacket. Thank you for offering to let him stay until morning but he left about 2 am. For 6 years Austin Kali and I have been calling many people begging for someone to care and help him. Why is law enforcement and the fire department the only agencies that will help us? Why do I have to legally press charges against my son to force our society to give him medical rehabilitation from this chemical warfare attack from China that Presidents Obama and later again President Biden refused to stop and warn us about? Why in 2022 is jail the safest place your kid can be? In 2023 why is Fentanyl the #1 killer of our kids for years but the CDC is still just talking about masks and COVID still?

I now know the majority of people with SUD are numbing a trauma. On Austin’s first college holiday away from family Easter Day 2014 Austin got a text from his dad saying that he left. He told me that morning, “I can’t do this to you anymore. I’m leaving.”  The marriage counselor had told me a couple months prior to google ‘master of manipulation, lack of compassion and empathy’, and you will know what you are dealing with in your marriage. Adding, there is jealousy and resentfulness of your son for the attention that Austin took away from him. In the following months it became obvious that he divorced his kids also. At the forced meeting for him to see his kids the level of cold I felt was unnerving . I knew then it wasn’t just me he hated. I said, “I want to thank you for not killing the kids and I, because I know it was an option of yours.” He just chuckled and smiled. We parted ways. Austin wanted to talk to his dad and go to therapy with him, making frequent requests. All denied. I would beg his dad, “Please just talk to him, do it for him. He is suffering.” All requests were refused. His dad had control of his insurance and would not make the required call to get a rehab facility. He keeps saying he doesn’t know that Austin drinks or has a problem. He says he sure hides it good from him. Even his next wife helped and placed the number in front of him but he refused to call the facility and help him. Austins pleas via text went on for months until he died. He knew how important Austin was to me.

I was so desperate for help I had to resort to trying to have the LA Courts mandate a Residential Rehabilitation Center. For a year, every month in court I would stand up and beg, “Austin is in there, he needs help! He is worth saving. Please he needs rehab. That’s all I’m asking for. He has a disease!” His public defender would say, like a robot, the same thing every time, “Your Honor, rehab is not indicated.” How do you loose your car, cel phones, computer? Why would you keep my son from getting the medical help he needed? Every other person had at least AA mandated. When a mom says their kid needs rehab then their kid needs rehab! DA Gascon said LAC was committed to Rehabilitation, Not Incarceration. Was Austin and I a joke to you? The day after Austin was killed and you saw it on the news you went to the judge to have all of his files sealed..then went on maternity leave to deliver your baby. I wonder what you named your baby. I often wonder if you think of me and Austin when your baby looks at you and smiles. Austin was the best baby. He had the best laugh I’ve ever heard. Austin and I were so close. In 2022 I noticed that you housed my son at the skid row facility far from the Antelope Valley where he would have had family and friends support. You put him in a facility that did not have any Narcan or safe Harm Reduction Facilities.The rule is never use alone and always have Narcan. They didn’t know.  If he was in jail he would have gotten Narcan and still be alive. When you neglected his safety and medical welfare you also killed me, and my mom. I emailed you afterwards congratulating you on the birth of your baby. You did not even have the decency to give the mother of your client your condolences. He may have been just another piece of trash addict to you, but he was everything to me. Austin and Kali are my life. You dragged this out for over a year. He could have attended twelve 30 day rehab visits. Why wouldn’t you let Austin go to rehab? His emails show that he was still begging for he and I to get to speak to each other in counseling like the judge approved months before. We were not allowed to speak to each other for a year. When Austin and I would see each other at court he would hold his heart and tilt his head. I would do the same and shake my head yes, you got this. I would then say a prayer acknowledging and thanking his Guardian Angel. I told Kali all the time that Austin  has the best Guardian Angel ever. He/She must be exhausted. I could see that this court mandated rehab plan was not going to happen so I was already working on the next plan. I sold the childhood home and gave everything away, concerned that there were possibly too many triggers there, his behavior there was unlike the Austin that I knew who left for college.  I moved far away from the city,  were there was all of the family to help. I was hoping to draw Austin away from LA and the people that kept him in that dangerous environment. I wanted Austin to remember who he was, and to feel that he was loved by his family.

When I hung up from TMZ that morning, I looked at Kali and said, “ I am NOT ASHAMED OF Austin and this happened TO HIM!” Austin did not want to be living like that,  Austin was not enjoying himself, and Austin did NOT want to die!  I WILL NOT be silent about this.”  For years Austin kept saying, “I just want to take care of Mom and Kali. I don’t want to be misunderstood. I don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m worried about my legacy.” There are so many other people out there who are going through the same thing and not getting the help they need. I was aware that the chemicals were too strong and held Austin hostage. I was far from understanding the reality of the current masses of drug/chemical poisoning/attacks on our citizens. The silence, negative stigma, facility and agency incompetence/excuses, outdated advice that does not work or apply to the CURRENT NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT/HEALTH CRISIS is killing our future generations of Americans and is unacceptable.

“So Austin has no more Hope?” This is what I asked LAC medical examiner when he called me that night. I can’t believe it. I still can’t. I will not stop fighting for the Hope that Austin had for others, and for himself. It was important for Austin to be understood. Homicide Detectives collected his computers, phones, and a page of passwords. In the follow up phone meeting they informed me that none of the passwords worked so they wouldn’t be able to collect any evidence from them. Kali and I were so disappointed and frustrated. I said, “OH COME ON AUSTIN!!! What is your password?!!!”  Pop! In my mind’s eye I see something… I threw my hands up, shook my head and said, “Try (___)”.  There was silence…..the Detective gasped and said,  “I’m in!”

Kali and I were so very excited and thankful. I really needed help in understanding and this was an absolute gift from God and Austin.

The outpouring of kindness, love and support shown by Austin’s friends, actor families and mainstream media for Austin was so very appreciated. You all chose a path of compassion and it did not go unnoticed. I wondered if Austin’s situation was something you all were struggling with within your own circle. It showed me that there was hope that Austin might be understood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s been a decade of destruction since that Easter Day that hurt Austin so deeply. It’s been a year since Austin died. Grief Expert David Kessler said, “Death does not have the power to end a relationship.” That has certainly been true for Kali, Austin and I. When Austin told me his password with Homicide Detective I was able to see why he needed to be numb, heard and understood.  He refused to give up hope on his dad. He texted him over and over again in describing in detail to him what he needed. He was setting his dad up to be the hero, so he could fix him. He wanted so desperately for his dad to show him that he cared. Austin keeps getting in my head about this. He won’t leave me alone until I write about it. Be transparent and tell the whole truth. I will let Austin tell it through their own words and texts (seen below). There is something about being heard and understood, especially when the other person is deceptive and manipulative. The gaslighting and psychological abuse had taken a toll on all of us.  Austin has been in angst and wants peace. I hope this sets Austin free. I want freedom . Kali deserves freedom. It’s our lives and we have the right to talk about it. It’s happening to us and we don’t want to be controlled by fear any more.

Please if anyone is suffering go to another friend or call the 988 number. Don’t  let a person or a drug gamble with your Liberty. You may get Death like Austin did. My only comfort is knowing that Austin has a loving Father now in Heaven.

I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love, support and respect that you have always shown Austin.❤️‍🩹Austin is larger than life, and that’s why I shared him with the world. I have always been so protective of Austin, but I couldn’t save him from these chemicals. Austin did not want to die, just know that Austin’s story is far from over.  I will carry out Austin’s Legacy of HOPE and try to save future generations in Austin’s name.  Austin would tell me, “I am you and you are me. When we save each other we save ourselves.”

Some people might think that I am still trying to save Austin. But if Austin is right, he lives on through us, and Austin’s light keeps HOPE alive.

💔Austin Majors Mom Karrie❤️‍🩹