Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic

165 - A grieving mother's memoir about addiction inspires a screenplay

Angela Kennecke is a journalist who lost her 21-year-old daughter Emily to fentanyl poisoning on May 16, 2018. Angela is "grieving out loud" to try to put an end to this epidemic by stopping the stigma and promoting the treatment of substance use disorder as the disease it is. Anyone coping with loss and looking for inspiration can benefit from listening to this podcast.

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