Drug overdoses turn up on Facebook and in obituaries, defying stigma


  • TECH
  • Monday, 23 Jan 2017

A Facebook Inc. logo sits on display at Station F, a mega-campus for startups located inside a former freight railway depot, in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Facebook will open a startup incubator at Paris's soon-to-debut entrepreneur campus created by billionaire Xavier Niel, as as Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg vows to keep investing in France. Photographer: Christophe Morin/Bloomberg

After the drug overdose of her niece's boyfriend, Jennifer Hodge returned to her Suwanee, Georgia, home late one night last fall to find her own 23-year-old son, Robbie, on the bathroom floor, also suffering from an apparent overdose. 

She rushed him to the hospital, where doctors were able to revive his heart, though he remained unconscious. From her son's bedside, Hodge did something tens of millions of Americans do every day. She posted on Facebook. 

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