by Heidi Overson | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog, Community Alerts
There’s a demon making its way onto our streets, into our schools and into our homes. It’s killing without mercy–not just the drug users but unsuspecting people who’ve never used a drug before. Fentanyl poisoning is one of the leading causes...
by Heidi Overson | Jan 7, 2023 | Blog
The Dreaded Day Has Arrived Today my daughter, Amara, has been gone from this world for one year. Actually, she died on the 6th of January but wasn’t found and officially proclaimed dead until the 7th. So, I did my heaviest mourning yesterday. My husband and I went...
by Heidi Overson | Jan 2, 2023 | Blog
A Statement to the Community–Eighty-Nine People Have Spoken Eighty-nine people wrote the names of loved ones lost to addiction or accidental overdoses on ornaments and hung them on our foundation’s tree at Rotary Lights in La Crosse, Wisconsin. See the...
by Heidi Overson | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog
Fighting the Drug Crisis In 2019, I found a video on Facebook that stopped me in my tracks. It was a snippet of one of Marc Mero’s presentations, and it brought me to tears. My oldest daughter was struggling with addiction, and that’s why it hit me so hard. I...
by Heidi Overson | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog
Heidi wrote this when she first discovered her daughter was using heroin, back in 2015. It grabbed international attention and was read on NPR in Washington D.C. It should be noted that she wrote it under the pseudonym of Ella Crosse to protect and respect...
