Terry Mann shares his heartbreaking story of losing his daughter to an overdose and calls for increased behavioral health services, education on drug use dangers, and improved access to care. He forms a group to advocate for a community response to fight overdose and drug misuse.
In January, Terry Mann stood in front of the Dillingham City Council and told the story of his daughter, Dellana, who died from an overdose last May.
The night she died, she went for a drive, Mann said. When she didn’t return or respond to his messages, he went looking for her. He said he thought the car may have broken down somewhere without a phone signal. But Mann said the community needs to do more to address widespread drug use in the area. He said that since his daughter’s death last May, three other 18-year-olds with ties to Dillingham have fatally overdosed, and that the risk is real for everyone.
“It could lead to being desensitized to it,” he said. “It creates an expectation for the future where this is just normalized in our society. We don’t want to normalize overdose loss whatsoever.” “People don’t want to be disordered or dependent on things. We don’t like the way that sounds,” she said.
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