Despair can play role in opioid use: Experts say trauma, mental illness, inequities all factors

ST. PAUL — Jason Roberts watched his mother die of a brain aneurysm on Christmas Eve when he was just 4 years old.

Joe Nickelson's mom overdosed on cocaine on Halloween when he was 12. She never fully recovered.

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