TOO SAD –
March 6, 2025 – Tears welled in Rich Scheib’s eyes as he thought of his son, Wade, who died of a drug overdose on Dec. 7.
Scheib said the first time he realized his son was using drugs was when he suffered an overdose four years earlier.
“I just didn’t think he was that type of person. I just never thought that he would go down that road,” Scheib said.
“The first time was in my mom’s living room. And my mom called me frantic, saying he wouldn’t wake up. I rushed over there and I instantly knew he was OD’ing.”
Paramedics were able to revive him that time.
Scheib said because his 30-year-old son was shy and didn’t have many friends, he didn’t think he was as vulnerable to peer pressure to experiment with narcotics. And after the first overdose, the family thought that Wade had stopped using narcotics.
