Prologue Breana and Chandler: Siblings Lost Having to bury your own child is a parent’s worst nightmare. Michelle , a 49-year-old former account executive at American Express from Peoria, Arizona, has done it twice—because of heroin. Michelle’s daughter, Breana, became dependent on prescription painkillers when she was 19 and later switched to intravenous heroin use. She died in March 2013, aged 25. Michelle said: It was an ordinary day. She just went into her bedroom to take a nap. I [later] found her passed out, a needle sticking in her arm. I did CPR and called 911 but it took 10 minutes for them to arrive. Yet the outcome could have been different if Michelle had had access to naloxone—a...
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