"Why" is a common question among the parents and family members of people lost to America's illicit drug de jour, the powerful opioid fentanyl. Answers are hard to come by. Harder still is figuring out what to do about it. Carrie Walker is one

04. Balloons in Heaven

Jul 1st, 2021 8m 16s

It was Feb. 19, 2020. Katie Coughenour walked into a restroom a few steps down the hall from the front door of Aspire Behavioral Health, her counseling program, and locked the door. She did not walk out. How does an 18-year-old get her hands on

03. Brothers

Jul 1st, 2021 8m 34s

In March of last year Dan Harte lost his 28-year-old son Dylan. Dan found Dylan unresponsive in his room and called 911. It was too late. Nine months later, in December, four days after Christmas, incredibly, Harte lost his other son, 23-year-o

02. Best Friends

Jul 1st, 2021 8m 16s

There’s a deadly drug on the streets of Bakersfield right now in amazing abundance. It’s fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that serves as a powerful painkiller useful in cases like advanced-stage cancer. But it has now been appropriated for the ille

01. Invincible

Jul 1st, 2021 8m 13s

Tyler Cabral must have felt invincible. At times he seemed invincible to everyone else too. That’s the awful irony of his story - he shrugged off danger practically every day of his life but couldn’t overcome the shackles of a little pill. Fent

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