'It happens so often we become numb:' Windsor man on losing his friends to opioids
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Kevin Mooney can't count the number of people he's lost to an opioid overdose.
"It happens so often, we become numb to it very quickly and that's sad," said Mooney, a client of Windsor's Downtown Mission.
Mooney was one of about 30 people who attended A Night to Remember, an event hosted by the Downtown Mission Monday evening. The event paid tribute to locals who have died from an opioid overdose.
"It's an every day occurrence, every day we hear about somebody that overdosed the night before or early in the morning. Just before I got here I heard about two," he said.
The 40-year-old told CBC News that he himself has been struggling with drug addiction for about 20 years, specifically opioids.
"I was clean for a number of years, I was doing well," he said. "It's a vicious, vicious cycle that is hard to break."
Mooney wants people to know that it's not just people experiencing homelessness who use drugs; he's seen it himself.
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
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