A young woman has told of her heartbreak after her ‘soulmate’ and son’s godfather both died of fentanyl poisoning within months of each other.
Gwen Dudley, 33, is now raising son Luca, three, as a single mother following the death of her partner, Paul Duffy, 32.
Paul was a recovering addict and worked as a support worker for overdose victims when he started taking cocaine, on and off for two months. He took what he thought was cocaine, but was actually laced with fentanyl, and died. Just six months later, his best friend Chris Phillips, 35, died after taking heroin laced with the same thing.
Like Paul, Chris was in recovery and was supporting someone to sobriety, but Gwen said he felt “guilty” for not being there for Paul and relapsed. Despite trying to be a father figure to Paul’s son - his own godson - he started doing heroin to cope with the stress, she said. Chris, a roof inspector, died six months after his best freind, on November 15, 2021.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more than 150 people die each day in the US due to fentanyl poisoning....
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