What Addiction Couidn’t Take (opens in new tab)

A $300 a week drug habit. Over a year, it’s more than $15,000. Over a decade, it’s well into six figures. Over a lifetime, the total can be staggering. After my sister died from a fentanyl overdose last year, I found out the cost of her addiction. Then I realized I was measuring the wrong loss. Some struggles arrive suddenly. Others quietly settle into a family and remain there for decades. My sister struggled with addiction from her teenage years onward. Over time, it became the kind of shad...