BUFFALO, N.Y. — Gwen Mysiak, executive director of P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative knows personally and professionally about grief, especially when children are involved.
“We have learned that bereaved children are 175% more likely to have substance misuse disorder and so and one in four suicide deaths, it would have been a bereaved child,” she said.
In Erie County in the first seven months of 2023, 10 percent of all overdose deaths were people under 30…