Overdose-related deaths dropped by about 46% in Palm Beach County, according to Project Opioid, a nonprofit that held a symposium at Florida Atlantic University. State and local officials discussed ways to address the overdose and substance abuse crisis.
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Kelly Nichols says she pictured how she’d die one day: She’d succeeded a long line of people who abused drugs, so turning to drugs seemed a certain, bleak future.
“It was only inevitable,” Nichols, now 57, said. “I woke up to it. I’d go to school with pot in my hair. So I knew that’s how I was going to die.”
