SHREVEPORT, La. ( KTAL/KMSS ) – Louisiana families are opening up about some of their darkest times in a new documentary about the opioid epidemic.
The Louisiana Supreme Court Family created the Opioid Crisis Documentary in Need of Services Assistance Program (FINS) and aims to shine a light on the addiction crisis that many Louisiana families are shamefully suffering through. The October release of the doc is by design, as the month highlights National Youth Substance Use Prevention Month and Substance Misuse Prevention Month.
The aptly named film has a run time of just shy of 45 minutes. It is filled with emotional recounts from family members who lost loved ones who struggled with addiction, whether they were killed in a drug-related slaying like Dr. Dan Schneider, who was at the forefront of the opioid crisis in south Louisiana after his son’s drug-related murder as explained in Netflix’s “The Pharmacist,” or Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice John L. Weimer whose younger brother acted on suicidal ideations that increased during his dependency on opioids.