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The LOVE KENZA FOUNDATION was created in an effort to save lives and help heal individuals and the families of those suffering from Opioids and other substance addictions.

We are a tribe of Broken Souls and among millions of parents around the world who have lost children to Opioids and other substance addictions.

Join us in our effort to save the lives of all those fighting and suffering addictions, as well as their families, in honor of KENZA through the LOVE KENZA FOUNDATION.

 
 

Addiction

Studies show it takes 5 days for an adolescent to become addicted to prescribed pain medication. Whether prescribed legitimately or not.

It is reported that 3 out of 5 adolescents who have been legitimately prescribed pain medication as adolescents become addicted to Heroin later in life.

Today Fentanyl, reportedly 50-100 times stronger than Heroin, is used to cut every counterfeit street/club drug from Xanax to Vicodin to Cocaine to Heroin. When Fentanyl is added in just a few grains to a counterfeit Xanax it can and will kill.

STATISTICS

  • OPIOID related Deaths are now responsible for more deaths than Car Deaths and Gun Deaths as stated in USAFACTS.ORG

  • 80% of Heroin users have previously abused Prescription Painkillers per USAFACTS.ORG

  • Approximately 42,249 OPIOID Related Deaths in 2016 per National Institute On Drug  Abuse

  • Approximately 47,600 OPIOID Related Deaths in 2017 per Center For Disease Control

  • Approximately 47,590 OPIOD Related Deaths in 2018 per CNN.COM

  • Preliminary data show that 81,230 overdose deaths occurred in the United States from June 2019 through May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period per Center for Disease Control 2020

  • Several sources report over 100,000 OPIOID-related deaths occurred in 2020

  • Emory University Study states 1 in 4 Overdose Deaths occurred in youth under the age of 19

  • Reports such as The Guardian claim as many as 200 people die per day of OPIOID Overdoses

  • Data shows well over 100,000 deaths in each of 2021 and 2022, increasing year over year. 

 
 

Kenza Lee Schnur

passed July 8th 2017 at age 23

We lost our beautiful daughter KENZA to what many oversimplify as ADDICTION………. it is not simple. Our Daughter KENZA died of a Fentanyl overdose.

Our immediate family of 3 was a perfect shiny Tricycle with three wheels that were never far apart and never stopped moving throughout the world as one, in constant LOVE. Even in the most difficult days of our struggle to conquer Addiction, there was always LOVE.

Our front wheel is now missing, always to be missed. We try our best not to stay stuck and remember the LOVE. It is not easy to move a Tricycle forward which has lost its front wheel.

“You cannot turn a Tricycle into a Bicycle”, but we now must. The LOVE KENZA FOUNDATION is part of that effort to save lives from the horror and pain of addiction.

 original music recordings & Photo montage

A Special Musical Gift from Kenza & Robert

 

 “We cannot walk alone” - Martin Luther King

 
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Contact Us

LOVE KENZA FOUNDATION
11301 West Olympic Blvd. #121-811
Los Angeles, CA. 90064
Email: lovekenzafoundation@gmail.com