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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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CDC Warning: Medetomidine Found in the Illegal Fentanyl Supply

A new warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights another dangerous development in the opioid crisis: the increasing presence of medetomidine in the illegal fentanyl supply across the United States. Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative that is not approved for human use. It is commonly used in dogs for sedation and pain management, but it is now being detected in street drugs—particularly fentanyl mixtures—throughout the Northeast and

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CDC Warning: Medetomidine Found in the Illegal Fentanyl Supply

A new warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights another dangerous development in the opioid crisis: the increasing presence of medetomidine in the illegal fentanyl supply across the United States. Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative that is not approved for human use. It is commonly used in dogs for sedation and pain management, but it is now being detected in street drugs—particularly

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Stories That Stay With Us

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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ADAM EATMON

I found Al-Anon but Adam would have none of it. He refused help. He turned inward, his rage coming out at me more and more as he aged. He became violent.

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