![]() I felt so bereft in 2018 that a minister friend of mine felt the need to kindly point out: “Not everyone is a heroin user, Beth.” And while I knew that he was right, as overdose deaths soared during COVID-19, I felt more hopeless than ever.īeyond basic mental help health and daily exercise, I wasn’t quite sure how to deal-and my grief was nothing compared to the pain now experienced by more than one million families who’ve lost addicted loved ones, or the one million families who’ve lost relatives due to COVID. “Secondary trauma” is what psychologists call all the not-sleeping, overeating, and not-relaxing I experienced after spending years writing about trauma. ![]() ![]() I’d been following her story for more than two years when her mom phoned to say that her battered body had been discovered at the bottom of a dumpster on Christmas Eve. When my third book, Dopesick, came out in 2018, I found myself in the place of promoting a book at the same time I was grieving the recent murder of 28-year-old Tess Henry, a main protagonist of that book. ![]()
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