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60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction 60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction
60 Days Sober: OD Victim's Family Shares Truth About Addiction The family of a man who overdosed on drugs after 60 days sober is hoping his tragic story will help save someone else’s life. Robert “Bobby” Criss was on his way to Baltimore’s Hope House where a bed was waiting for him to continue in his recovery and counseling after a trip to Texas, his cousin, Connie Ratliff said. Bobby never made it to Hope House. His body was found alongside an unidentified man in Carroll Park in Baltimore on the evening of Wednesday, June 1, and he was pronounced dead at 48 years old. Bobby had been dead for an unknown amount of time before his body was found, surro…

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by Annie DeVoe
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'He Died In His Tracks,' NJ Mom Says After Twin Son, 25, Dies Of Fentanyl Poisoning 'He Died In His Tracks,' NJ Mom Says After Twin Son, 25, Dies Of Fentanyl Poisoning
'He Died In His Tracks,' NJ Mom Says After Twin Son, 25, Dies Of Fentanyl Poisoning A New Jersey mother is opening up on social media to spread awareness of counterfeit drugs after the sudden death of her 25-year-old son due to fentanyl poisoning. Denville native and Morris Knolls High School graduate Ross Michael Kaplowitz died Dec. 13, his obituary says. The University of Vermont student had gone out to smoke in the family’s garage and was found dead hours later, his mother, Marisa, details in a public Facebook post -- which had nearly gone viral as of March 3. “There was nothing we could do to revive him, although we tried," she wrote. "He died in his tracks.” Though…

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by Valerie Musson