Dallas family’s story of losing son to fentanyl poisoning brings home new drug crisis | Grigsby
The newly inscribed brick, placed by friends in the children’s garden at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, memorializes a 23-year-old whose cause of death should jolt us all.This lethal synthetic opioid — a cheap filler in counterfeit prescription pills increasingly showing up in North Texas — is as likely to be found in the fake “study drug” Adderall your kid buys in the school bathroom as it is in the anxiety-reducing “Xanax” purchased from a two-bit dealer.
Martin Heitzman's parents have matching rings into which are etched with their late son's fingerprints as a remembrance of the 23-year-old. Judie and Daragh look back and see how the challenges of traditional and highly competitive academics exacerbated their son’s anxiety and increasing need to self-medicate.
Martin later left the house for a short time. Daragh was relieved, if skeptical, to find him in bed with the TV on at 10:45 p.m.