Every 49 minutes
That’s how frequently people died of drug poisoning in Canada during one dreadful week last summer. Here, their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters share a message: the opioid crisis touches everyone.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery’s agonizing drug addiction
Diaries show the disastrous extent of the ’Anne of Green Gables’ author’s addiction to prescription drugs, as well as parallels to our modern-day opioid crisis
Why people hooked on opioids, especially in the U.S., keep falling through the cracks
The author notes that the culture of pill-taking often takes hold in early life, when kids are prescribed drugs such as Adderall or Ritalin for ADHD