Tess Henry’s family paid $12,000 for 30 days of rehab from opioid addiction. She had done two more cycles of treatment without achieving sobriety. So her family agreed to pay $20,000 for 28 days of more rehab. But they never got the chance.
A few days after assuring her mother that she planned to fly to Virginia to resume treatment, Ms. Henry was murdered.
The tragic end of Ms. Henry’s six-year struggle to recover from an opioid addiction that began with a prescription for cough syrup was chronicled last week in The New York Times by Beth Macy, a journalist who covers the opioid crisis.
[For more on this story by Lela Moore, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...s-of-drug-rehab.html]
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