by subulwaa@uwosh.edu | Feb 12, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
John Nygren Wisconsin State Representative, Marinette as told to Bethanie Gengler “My daughter, Cassie, has struggled with addiction since about 2007. That included an overdose and near death. It has included incarceration. Mixed in there would be some treatment...
by crawfork@uwosh.edu | Feb 2, 2020 | FIXED Book Stories
Brenda Merrifield as told to Joe Schulz “I was married by the time I was 18 and by the time I was age 24 I had four children. In 1999 I divorced my husband. In October of ‘99, I packed up the kids and went to go live with this guy that I met online. But, when we moved...
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....
