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“I share this anecdote because it feels similar to the work I’ve done around the opioid crisis since my brother died.”
“Feeling hope amidst an ongoing opioid crisis sounds like the stuff of fiction and wasn’t on the horizon when we created the podcast in 2019.”
“She’s writing a memoir about her sister.” And he was right.”
“And now we’ve both written books about it that are being released by the same publisher a month apart.”
“So I started writing as an act of survival.”
“The idea was that we would start with someone’s last day and rewind the tape to see what we could have done to change the ending.”
“I felt a split happening in me, so getting things out on paper felt like a necessity for my mental health.”
“I picked up a pen almost immediately after Sasha died, and at the same time, I began thinking about this dealer.”
“I also think much of my willingness to learn came from losing Sasha.”
“At the center of it was a question that plagues everyone who’s lost a loved one to an overdose: What could I have done differently?”
“The ones known to us, like family, and the ones we don’t see coming.”
“I had a 13-month-old baby when my brother died.”
“When my daughter was born, we discovered she had permanent hearing loss and that hearing aids would be necessary during all waking hours for her entire life.”
“My brother’s death and your sister’s death were preventable.”
“People die, and sometimes your brother dies of a heroin overdose.”