ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 31, 2018 – It started as a wish made last October as three longtime friends sat around a firepit after a commemoration for the late Timothy Kopetsky.
Only 31, Tim had fought addiction to opioids for 10 years, and was in successful recovery for the last five years. In helping a friend who relapsed and survived an overdose, Tim came into contact with heroin and lost control. He died that evening; his friend returned from the hospital and died of a second overdose the next day.
Two more deaths from a disease that claims 115 lives a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A disease that now takes more lives annually than automobile accidents and that sends more than 1,000 people a day to emergency rooms.