Five years after Lacy and Jackson passed away, their father found Alex at his home with a needle
Cut from table-flat cotton and tobacco fields, Greenville, a racially diverse city of about 90,000, has grown in recent decades. Its economy is strong, though its poverty rate is higher than the state’sThere are a half dozen pharmaceutical facilities in town, along with a medical center and East Carolina University, attended byand drugs are easy to come by, many said.
father, Bill, ran a sod farm. Bill and Fran divorced when Ellie and her brothers, separated in age by just three years, were adolescents. Bill remarried and had a baby, Lacy, with his new wife, Jennifer. “It was cliche, but it was all fun at first,” Chase said. “You’ve got a problem before you know it — not as a figure of speech, but literally. It wasn’t until I was experiencing symptoms of withdrawal that I realized I had a problem.”Ellie Laughinghouse Crout holds a bracelet, left, with compartments containing bits of her late brothers' ashes. At right, she displays a locket that holds some of Jackson’s ashes.
John Stuart Fletcher III, known to everyone as Stuart, had arrived at St. Peter during the sixth grade after a problem with a bully in public school. He was anxious and badly wanted to fit in at his new school,A doctor prescribed clonazepam, which she did not realize could be addictive, for his anxiety. By seventh grade, he was also smoking marijuana.
how he could approach a total stranger just to say how “great” she was. But his own troubles kept multiplying.he died of a fentanyl overdose in 2017. Maria had spent those Still, the burden of survival can sometimes be too much. Jacob, who began medical school this summer at 29, had gone to more than 10 friends’ funerals by the time he was 24. Now, he has lost 20 or 25 friends to drugs.close with Alex. Both came from divorced families and were not as affluent as some of the other boys.
The problem? The war on drugs.
Substance ABUSE?
Seems like a bigger problem than guns …
So tragic, but those bra souls will never be forgotten, Rest In Peace
You need just one infected fish to contaminate the pond. Moral values and ethics should be primed into human progeny. Their peer pressure emotions,unguided as they are,override all scientific rationale/ logic and societal responsibility. Decadence precedes destruction of 'haves'.
Just how much is one family supposed to endure. God. 💔💐
Watching “Dopesick” on Hulu. Every member of the Sackler family should be rotting in a prison. Purdue Pharma pushed OxyContin on hospitals, doctors and the public as non addictive. This was the start of the current epidemic of drug deaths.
Imagine if the Post were truly a news outlet and covered what Elon Musk has revealed about Twitter's collusion with the DNC and Biden administration. Elon is a better journalist than anyone at the Post. You guys killed democracy. It didn't just die in darkness. Crooked partisans.
Fentanyl is a symptom of making drugs illegal. Drug dealers are constantly trying to get addicts more and more addicted to make more money, so they add more addictive drugs to the lesser addictive drugs they are selling.
Notice how it is framed. No outside circumstances could be blamed? All their “own individual path” in a system that should never be questioned.
Is there a version of this with dark text on a light background? Dark mode hurts my eyes
How does Taylor Lorenz think China would handle this?
Explanation; As long as these deadly poisons were in Black communities no empathy or care needed when it hit White communities it’s now an epidemic to be dealt with showing empathy and care. Prisons for Blacks Hospitals/Rehabilitation for Whites. CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST!
Such devastation. My heart pains for those poor families.
They tell boys that their masculinity is toxic. They tell them little boys can be little girls. They tell them there is no God & no afterlife. Abortion is legal, life is cheap & drag queen story time is “normal.” Why are so many young men confused, angry & turning to drugs? 🤔
Are we not living in the times mentioned by Prophet Muhammad SAW? The times of great oppression and divide in humanity? Will the promised time come soon? Will we be taken out of this darkness? Muhammad Qasim Dreams
The biggest drug dealers in America are the pharmaceutical companies.
And the Washington Post is culpable.
When their country elects a leaders like Trump, many young people must wonder about the value of goodness and the meaning of life.
The irony,dems turned around and sued pharmaceuticals cause of these pain meds that dems allowed to flourish.dems are the root cause of this.
Republicans also said deaths will overshadow the 1070’s Vietnam era heroin epidemic,republicans were correct cause 43,000 people die a year.
💔💔beyond SAD💔💔
Disgraced twitter head Vijaya Gadde was knee deep with government censoring content, journalists, political opponents on the platform. Gadde was appointed to the DHS panel in Dec 2021 as part of a team crafting policy for ‘misinformation’. ImpeachBiden CORRUPTION censorship
Waterbury connecticut Republican news paper between 1994-1995 with dems fighting tooth and nail with republicans to get perdue pharma oxycontin into pharmacies.dems succeeded early 1995 with this.republicans said if these end up in pharmacies many people will die.
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