Somebody help me! Pat Strickland was about to watch a movie in the den of her suburban Atlanta home two years ago, when she heard her 11-year-old grandson screaming upstairs. She rushed up the ten carpeted steps to her daughter’s bedroom and found her slumped over on the edge of her bed, a needle and syringe between her legs. Pat scrambled to resuscitate the mother of two, filling her lungs with air. But it was too late. Stephanie Futrell’s lips had already turned blue. Pat knew her 33-year-old daughter — once a fun-loving woman who aspired to be a journalist — had finally succumbed in her years-long drug addiction. Stephanie had overdosed on heroin spiked with fentanyl, a short-acting pain...
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