Braintree Seminar Spreads Awareness of Drug Dangers and Overdose Response
The presentation was put together by Impact Quincy with assistance from the Cambridge Prevention Coalition.
Donna Keith's son left for Arizona last December, looking for a break from the turmoil of his life in Pembroke. Following knee surgery in 2003, related to his years playing hockey, Paul J. DeVincent Jr. gained some weight, and eventually was prescribed OxyContin by a doctor. Like so many pain patients, DeVincent's legitimate use for the opioid – a synthetic cousin to heroin – transformed into an addiction. Just two months after arriving in Arizona, on Feb. 4, 2012, DeVincent used a highly potent batch of heroin and died of an overdose. "I didn't know heroin was the alternative to that drug," Keith said. "How would I know?" That lack of knowledge about the drugs that have increasingly been killing people in cities and towns throughout the…
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