Epidemic Casualty

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/sunday/drug-overdose-survival-opioids.html

An overdose of heroin and fentanyl four years ago left Andrew Foote with severe brain damage after his brain was starved of oxygen for approximately thirty minutes.

In the opioid epidemic, outcomes like Andrew’s are a largely unseen casualty. “People think that if you overdose on drugs, you either die or you’re O.K.,” his mother, Linda Foote, told me. “But that’s not true.”