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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.

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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 Conversation About Why We Need to Educate Students About Addiction

What do young people really understand about addiction? And perhaps just as importantly, what do parents understand? Those questions were at the heart of a recent conversation between Harris Insler and Jude DiMeglio Trang, host of the Gift of Need podcast. In Episode #53, “Why We Need to Educate Students About Addiction,” Harris and Jude discuss the changing landscape of substance use, what students and parents need to know, and

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A Conversation About Why We Need to Educate Students About Addiction

What do young people really understand about addiction? And perhaps just as importantly, what do parents understand? Those questions were at the heart of a recent conversation between Harris Insler and Jude DiMeglio Trang, host of the Gift of Need podcast. In Episode #53, “Why We Need to Educate Students About Addiction,” Harris and Jude discuss the changing landscape of substance use, what students and

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Stories That Stay With Us

NICO MORALES

“Opiate use took years from my family and me, caused division, hurt, and unremovable memories to the whole family, including myself.”

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Joseph Abraham

As a parent of a child with substance abuse disorder (SUD), you always carry hope within your heart. This hope always lead me to believe that there was no hurdle that we could not overcome. I always took it one step at a time and began living life just that way. Approaching each problem as it came and knowing that somehow, we would fix things and life would eventually be okay.

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THEO MARINESCU

The fateful day arrived on May 17, 2015. There will never come a day, hour, minute or second that I stop loving or thinking about my son. Child loss is a loss like no other. Theo was an incredibly loved young man.
Friends flew across the country to be at his funeral, and the incredible sadness about how his death could have been prevented just permeated the air. Because of the embarrassment he felt, he never asked his friends for help.

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