Anguished Families Shoulder The Biggest Burdens Of Opioid Addiction

When Will It STOP? –

April 18, 2018 – Last August, Destini Johnson practically danced out of jail, after landing there for two months on drug charges. She bubbled with excitement about her new freedom and returning home to her parents in Muncie, Ind. She even talked about plans to find a job. Eight months later, Johnson, 27, lay in a coma, silent except for the beeping of machines. She looked small and pale, buried in a tangle of hospital bedsheets and tubes, after suffering a dozen or so strokes as a result of her latest opioid overdose. Her mother, Katiena Johnson, kept vigil at the intensive care unit at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie every day, fretting not only about whether her daughter would live, or how much brain damage she’d suffered, but also how to pay for the myriad costs resulting from the latest harrowing chapter of Destini’s opioid addiction. Katiena Johnson says her daughter is regaining consciousness and is out of the ICU.

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