Opioids

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Caroline

Caroline: “My name is Caroline and I suffer from anxiety and severe depression. I just want to start by saying to others that deal with

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Shannon

“I have the gift of perspective, endowed simply by my time spent on earth. I am 65 years old. I see lives lost, mourned forever

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Riley

Riley: “four years ago this week, my twin brother overdosed in the shower and almost died. it had been a long time coming. since our

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Ryan and Jennifer with Blue

Jennifer: Blue Valentine It was a divine intervention. That’s the only way I can describe it. The realization of what happened left me stunned, leaving

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Adrian and Callie

Callie: “My older son Averi struggled with depression because of a bone disease. He hurt a lot. On the day he passed away, he had

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Hannah and David

Hannah: “When I first took a Percocet, I was mostly ignorant about the opioid crisis. As a teenager, I had done my fair share of

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Stephanie

Stephanie: “Mia wasn’t the first person I knew who died from drug-related complications. But she was the major one that impacted my life. She died

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Jeane Anne

Jean Anne: “I am from Ashland, Kentucky. It borders West Virginia. I heard about a lady in Huntington that found a dead body of someone

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Clay

Clay: “I have been expecting a phone call from my hometown since quarantine began. Even if the pandemic wasn’t surging through the United States and

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