Finding Her Son’s Heroin

Gail Cole’s son Brendan was about to finish his college career when she noticed something was wrong.   Brendan would admit to his parents that he was addicted to pain pills.  His use of the drugs started, as with so many, by taking opioids as prescribed by doctors following surgery.  Thinking back, Gail can remember how she needed to keep the pills away from him to make sure he didn’t take too many.  Brendan would later develop a heroin addiction that would cost him his life.