'Death trap': Front-line workers warn of drug overdoses rising on and off the streets
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A father's hope turned to pain in less than 24 hours after his son entered a residential drug treatment facility and fatally overdosed.
A father's hope turned to pain in less than 24 hours after his son entered a residential drug treatment facility and fatally overdosed.
"Our son died in a place that was supposed to be safe," Ray Corbiere told The Canadian Press. His son Joshua was 25 years old.
"He was trying to change his life. He wanted to kick this addiction."
The young man died while seeking treatment at Thorpe Recovery Centre, east of Edmonton. Corbiere said he checked in just before 11 a.m. on Aug. 18 last year and by the next morning he was dead.
"He was all alone and he was my baby," said Corbiere, holding back tears.
Corbiere said he has been fighting to get answers from Thorpe about his son's death, but he has uncovered little about where the drugs came from and what happened when Joshua was found unresponsive.
"There has to be more or better help out there to get these kids through this because they deserve to live."
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