Save the Michael's of the World

Mission
Save the Michaels of the World was created to help raise awareness of prescription drug addiction. The abuse and misuse of these controlled substances lead to serious illness, depression, deaths from overdose and suicide, and devastations of caregivers and loved ones.

History
Save the Michaels of the World, Inc. was established in June of 2011 as a small kitchen roundtable action group, to bring attention and awareness of the divesting effects of opioid medications after the death by suicide of 20 year old Michael David Israel.

Avi and Julie Israel decided they didn’t want to see other families suffer the loss of a loved one. The journey started with an interview with a Buffalo News reporter who told Michael’s story. That story got more attention from TV stations. Doctors, patients, parents and the population as a whole are not aware of the danger of opiate addiction. We wanted to find a way to address the overprescribing of pain medications such as hydrocodone others.