Melissa Etheridge is speaking out about how substance abuse “eats away at good people.” The 59-year-old knows how difficult it is to watch a loved one struggling with the problem after her son Beckett, 21, died from causes related to opioid addiction last May.
RELATED: Melissa Etheridge Shares Why She Decided To Open Up About Son’s Death And Addiction “When opioid addiction took my son, I wasn’t going to hide that.
It feels better to be open about it, to be truthful about it,” she told People in a new interview. Beckett first became addicted to drugs after he was prescribed painkillers for an ankle injury while training to become a pro snowboarder. “It gave him a whole lot of pain.
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