Families haunted by opioid deaths seek answers, change

Answers might soon come regarding the mysterious death of Casey Jo Schulte in a Fargo apartment garage last August — whether she accidentally overdosed on painkillers, died by suicide, or was killed — but her family already knows a culprit that put her in harm’s way.

An addiction to powerful opioid painkillers that she needed at first for digestive pain — but later just needed — hijacked the promise of a 26-year-old champion swimmer and dancer whose life goal was to study nursing or radiology and care for others.

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