Surviving the Opioid Epidemic: Stories from The Death Board

We call it the death board and a lot of times it hits home for a bunch of people because they come in and they know these people on the wall. This is Brandon. How are you? Good, how are you? Very good. Good to meet you. Good to see you. You remember all this because you did it yourself? Yeah, absolutely. I remember it like it was yesterday. There’s no question about it. What was it that made you decide enough? I need to be here. When you lose everything and you’re completely at your rock bottom, you have nowhere to go, you lose all family. They all give up on you and that’s not what I want. What does this place mean for you? It saved my life. I really believe that with all my heart. I actually worked in the coal mines and the pill epidemic where it was just a really big thing. And the mines giving coal miners the Oxycontins and that’s what led to really my addiction and then it progressed once the pills were gone. It kind of changed on the streets and heroin came around and that’s how I got pulled into doing drugs. So many people have the same story in this area. Absolutely.