Dr. Bill Fannin found his son unconscious in his bedroom. Medical training and a father’s love told him what to do.
Give him breath. Start his heart.
The
Pikeville, Kentucky, physician cupped his son’s face and tried to
resuscitate him on this October evening in 2011. He pushed down on his
son’s chest.
Sean Fannin laid there, still unmoving.
“It was,” Fannin recalled, his voice fading as he spoke, “too late.”
He soon learned Sean had overdosed on a drug derived from the opium poppy.
It was a drug the doctor knew all too well, one he had prescribed to many patients to ease their pain.
'God's own medicine'
In
Greek myth, when the goddess Aphrodite wept at the death of her lover,
Adonis, her tears gave birth to a new plant. The colorful poppy
contained a milky substance that promised to wash away sorrows.
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