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Okanagan mom pours her grief into a book to prevent any other family from enduring the pain of losing a child to a fentanyl overdose

June 22, 2018

She says if it helps just one family, it was well worth it. That's what a grieving Okanagan mom says about writing a painful book about her son's passing. The 30-year-old man died of an accidental fentanyl overdose last year--a tragedy they never imagined would affect their family. Klaudia Van Emmerik reports.

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