The funeral director's opioid scare mission: can fear help stop addiction?

Kevin Moran, who works with teens on opioid-hit Staten Island, shows scrolls of death certificates to try to jolt people from using drugs

“I am the one person you never want to meet,” Kevin Moran says quietly into the microphone. He’s talking to the adults in the room, about half of the 200 people gathered in the gymnasium of St Peter’s boys high school on New York’s Staten Island.

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We have to step it up a notch. We have to scare the crap out of them

Continue reading... April 19, 2018 at 03:30PM