Funeral home director offers blunt views on opioid deaths

A Middlesex County funeral home director is using his firm's website to discuss the deadly opioid crisis in stark terms.
Peter Kulbacki discusses witnessing the "inexplicable grief" and "emotional devastation" overdose deaths cause families and the community in a blog post made Monday on the Brunswick Memorial Funeral Home's site. The post's title includes a profanity directed at the drugs.
“I’m not the only funeral home that’s experiencing this,” Kulbacki says. “A lot of my colleagues are, if not most of my colleagues.”
Kulbacki says the number of calls the funeral home gets about overdose deaths has been increasing in recent years, especially in the last six months. He discusses how he wants to "punch a wall" in frustration after getting calls from family members making arrangements for opioid-related deaths.
"I know addiction is a disease. It doesn't respect title, your station in life, your socioeconomic status, or anything else. Trust me… I’ve seen it all. F*** you opioids,” Kulbacki wrote on the blog post, which has now gone viral, reaching tens of thousands of people.
“Those who know me know I’m not prone to profanity at least not professionally. That’s the way we feel,” Kulbacki says.
He writes on the blog that he's "distressed to walk family and friends to a casket containing the broken dreams of a life lost."
The state says that accidental drug overdoses claimed 1,600 lives in 2015, the most recent year records were compiled. 
“There are far more deaths attributable, or labeled as suicide,” Kulbacki says. “That is the backstory that we're hearing from families.”
A University of Virginia study recently showed that federal agencies are underestimating the overdose rate in many states because they're often not getting complete information about the deaths.
Kulbacki did praise East Brunswick police in his post on their addiction recovery initiative that provides outreach to those struggling with addiction.
The Associated Press wire services contributed to this report.