Keith Fitzpatrick’s addiction story starts like so many others: with a prescription for painkillers.
“I wasn’t picking it up around the corner and seeing a dealer,” Fitzgerald said. “It was doctors who were trying to help me. But back in the early 2000s, of course, it really wasn’t understood that these drugs would cause problems.”
Fitzpatrick, now a father and mental health advocate living in Labrador City, says it took years before he accepted he was physically and mentally dependent on the pills meant to help him overcome trauma.
It would be two full decades, and several brushes with death, before he was
