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We are Voices from the Opioid Crisis—a living archive of raw, honest stories from those touched by addiction, recovery, and loss.


Through these voices, we confront stigma, raise awareness, and build community-driven change.

Explore personal accounts. Share your own. Connect with others. Together, we can turn pain into purpose.

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Every overdose, every recovery, and every loss has a story behind it. By sharing yours, you can help break stigma, offer hope, and remind others they are not alone. You don’t need to be a writer—we’ll help you tell your story with compassion, care, and respect.

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A Changing Drug Landscape: New Dangers Facing College Students

The drugs young people encounter today are changing rapidly, creating new risks for college students, families, and communities. Recent incidents at Cornell University and the University of Mississippi have raised concerns about increasingly potent synthetic opioids, ketamine, kratom products, and other dangerous substances. A Drug Supply Full of Unknowns Fentanyl remains a major concern, but it is not the only dangerous substance circulating in the illicit drug supply. Emerging synthetic

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A Changing Drug Landscape: New Dangers Facing College Students

The drugs young people encounter today are changing rapidly, creating new risks for college students, families, and communities. Recent incidents at Cornell University and the University of Mississippi have raised concerns about increasingly potent synthetic opioids, ketamine, kratom products, and other dangerous substances. A Drug Supply Full of Unknowns Fentanyl remains a major concern, but it is not the only dangerous substance circulating in the

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Stories That Stay With Us

Jessica Almasy

As her mother I don’t think there will ever be a day that I don’t get that sinking feeling in my stomach and that pain in my heart when I think about her. Tears come so easily now. There are days her life seems like it was a dream and then I remind myself, she was here and she mattered and she was loved. Oh how she was loved.

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Jarrod Barber

“… more and more parents were contacting me about that doctor. I started collecting empty pill bottles and scripts from parents and worked with the DEA to arrest her.”

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Joel Mutch

Funny, irreverent, talented, Jesus loving, rhyme spinning Joel – I’ll see you again. “I love you in a place where there’s no space and time.”

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