Brian Rehn has lost 60 friends to drug addiction. At 42 years old, he has attended far more funerals than weddings.
“It’s weird to be the ones still left standing,” he said. “A lot of our lifelong friends have died.”
Rehn and four of his close friends, all Marietta natives, worked together to co-author a new memoir, “Young Firecrackers.” The book tells their stories living with addiction in the northern Atlanta suburbs, an area sometimes called the “heroin triangle,” during the 1990s, and how the addiction and loss they experienced have followed them into adulthood…