by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Jan 31, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
Lacy as told to Jelissa Burns Pain and Addiction “When my first daughter was 2, I got addicted to opioids. I had never done them before, but then I broke a bone in my foot and I got a kidney infection in the same three-month span. I was prescribed Vicodin twice by...
by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Jan 30, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
Marcia as told to Gabrielle Fischer “I started drinking when I was 14. I would consider myself a drug addict as well, especially when it came to pills. I was addicted to painkillers early on. I would drink until I couldn’t drink anymore and then I would take pills. I...
by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Jan 24, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
Gloria West as told to Natalie Dillon A Son Lost to Addiction “I lost my son five years ago to alcoholism. Elliott was 31 years old. He was my youngest, and actually, he was the one that I worried least about. Elliott was always upbeat and organized. But as he got...
by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Jan 24, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
Julie Williams as told to Jelissa Burns My brother-in-law was one of the first fentanyl-laced heroin deaths in Milwaukee County on July 4, 2016. At the time of his death, he was approximately four years sober. He had struggled with his addiction from a very young age....
by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Karen Seifert Winnebago County Judge, Circuit Court Branch IV as told to Jelissa Burns “You absolutely build relationships with people over that period of time and especially seeing them every week, or two weeks, or three weeks depending on the phase they’re in in the...
