Breaking News:
  • The Foundation has received its tax-exempt status from the IRS. This means that your donation is tax deductible! Any prior donations are deductible in the year in which they were made.
  • Plans are in the works for a televised Fashion Show to commemorate the first annual Sober Day, USA: May 1st, 2006.
  • The charity auction is complete. Many thanks to all of our fantastic bidders! The funds you helped raise will go a long way to reaching our goals.


The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness was founded upon the death of Brent Shapiro, a twenty-five-year-old USC senior. Brent was a man with a large and loving heart who was also a Dean's List student and an athlete, raised in a good home with two loving parents and a supporting younger brother. He was afflicted with the disease of alcohol dependency. After eighteen months of sobriety, he thought he could experiment with alcohol. He drank at a party and took a half of a tab of Ecstasy, then he went into a coma and was buried a day and a half later.

If this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.

The Brent Shapiro Foundation has three purposes. The first is to raise awareness of the disease, both for children and their parents. The second is to support new and extensive research, in the hopes of identifying a genetic basis for this disease and developing methods of early identification, prevention and treatment. Finally, the Brent Shapiro Foundation hopes to take away the stigma of this disease by creating honest discussions around the country, and educating people that this disease should be treated no differently than any other. It is our belief that the solution, the answer, and the possible cure lies in a new and different approach.



Please send donations to:

The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness
10250 Constellation Boulevard, 18th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067



We are deeply touched and honored at the outpouring of support for our foundation. It has brought much comfort to the Shapiro Family and provided even more motivation for those of us at the Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness. The public response has been overwhelming, and we want you to know that we are grateful for all your calls, letters, cards, and donations - each and every one of them. However, please be aware that we are a newly formed organization and are working hard to read all correspondence. We ask for your patience, and we will be responding to all materials received.

Please note that at this time, we do not have the resources to deal with any specific individual requests for counseling or treatment for addiction problems or legal issues. Please seek help with other organizations.

Due to the volume of calls received, we cannot presently respond individually to telephone calls. If you have any materials, research, or anything, please send it to our address below. We will review all materials received as time permits. Due to the volume received, please be aware that none of the materials received can be returned.

Thank you so much for all your caring and support.

Please check this site regularly for updated information.