article_snippet.sent: Brayden Travis, 18, was left without medical attention for seven hours after taking drugs at a friend's house in St Charles County, Missouri in early March.
article_snippet.sent: Overdose: Brayden Travis, 18, suffered a stroke and severe brain damage after overdosing on heroin and Xanax last month.
article_snippet.sent: Addiction: my son mother explained that Brayden, left before the overdose, has struggled with drug addiction since my son was 15.
article_snippet.sent: Brayden had long been battling with addiction, Brayden said.
article_snippet.sent: Brayden first started smoking marijuana when Brayden was 15 and eventually moved on to heroin.
article_snippet.sent: Brayden enrolled in five or six treatment programs and left three of them, Brayden told the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
article_snippet.sent: Brayden spent eight months in juvenile custody for using drugs and failing drug tests, Brayden added.
highlights_snippet.sent: Brayden Travis, from St Charles County, Missouri, has battled drug addiction since he was 15 and overdosed on heroin in early March .
  