Jordan McClements is a writer, composition/literature instructor and recovering heroin survivor, as well as a Master of Fine Arts student at Columbia College Chicago. He resides in Felton.
Since I started using heroin at Delaware State University in 2016, over 3,000 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
Numbers don’t lie:
- In 2023, 457 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2022, 537 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2021, 514 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2020, 447 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2019, 435 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose. My cousin was one of them.
- In 2018, 401 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2017, 338 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
- In 2016, 282 Delawareans stopped breathing forever because of overdose.
Safer supply saves lives, Delaware.
According to the government of Canada: