A Mother Remembers Her Son And Rebuilds Life After Opioid Loss with Katie Rizzo

Send us Fan Mail One phone call, one prescription, one quiet apartment, and a life splits into before and after. We sit down with Katie Rizzo, a former high school anatomy and AP biology teacher, to talk about the loss of her firstborn son Nicholas to opioid addiction and overdose, and the brutal moment she realised grief was no longer an event, it was part of her identity. Katie brings a rare mix of tenderness and clarity to subjects many of us avoid: bereaved parenthood, the stigma around ...