Fearing the worst, this B.C. mom hired a private eye to track her daughter’s drug dealer – CBC

‘I was so furious,’ she says. ‘It broke my heart’

Dec 02, 2024

At the height of her daughter’s addiction, Julie Nystrom says she started envisioning what life would be like without her child.

She says her daughter, then 17, was hooked on street Xanax and taking up to eight pills a day. She was also experimenting with Percocet, MDMA, cocaine, acid, mushrooms and other illicit substances.

“It was like being in the centre of a cyclone,” Nystrom said.

“The screaming and yelling, the fighting, the not knowing why, and the despair of not knowing where she was or who she was with or if she was OK.”

They live in Vancouver, and in B.C. illicit drugs remain the leading cause of accidental death for people under 19, so Nystrom says she was terrified all the time.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/drug-dealer-teen-clients-vancouver-jay-1.7396385