A dialogue is needed for healing – Cochrane Eagle

Mar 02, 2017

That dialogue regarding prescription and illicit drugs has been initiated is an important step in our community.

Tragedy, violence and grief has affected our community in such a way that it cannot be ignored. When a loved one is lost, a family is left in mourning. Loss is already difficult but it is made that much more intense when the loss is sudden, violent or senseless.

It will be three years this July since a nephew of mine passed away. He died of heart failure brought on by cocaine and the prescription drug OxyContin.

Devastated at the loss of her only child and in a state of despair, my sister took his pills and fatally overdosed.

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