Marquita Berry remembers hearing music playing softly as she walked into her son’s bedroom last October.
She found him sitting cross-legged at the end of the bed, leaning forward, with one earbud resting on his shoulder.
“I reached out to touch him, and I could tell that he was no longer….” Ms. Berry said, her voice trailing off.
It has been less than a year since fentanyl stole the life of her eldest son, James Stafford, 30, who had been going through some rough times and struggling with an addiction to pain pills.
She believes her son, a father of three, went looking for pain relief in the small town of Richburg, South Carolina, only to find death in a fentanyl-laced pill….