When Erin O'Neill last week shared her story of how she had wished her meth-addicted son would die of an overdose to free him from the scourge, the Facebook page of her support group, Brave Hearts, went "ballistic" and in just one week rocketed from 45 members to 120 members.
O Neill had started the group to share her experience of the "long years of hell" in which her son's addiction to meth took over the whole family life.
O'Neill said on the day the story ran last Saturday her phone started ringing and didn't stop ringing until 10pm last night. Over the week she has spoken with more than 20 people who she says don't know where to turn,
"I had one 71 year old grandmother phone concerned about her P addicted grandchild.