Sitting on the bed of the daughter she lost to a methadone overdose in 2013, Gail McCarthy of Stetson inhales the lingering scent from the clothes her 24-year-old son, Matthew, was wearing when he died of a fentanyl overdose just a year and a half after 21-year-old Ashley’s death. Among the more than 100 families of overdose victims interviewed by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since the summer of 2016, at least seven had lost more than one person to the epidemic. Staff photos by Brianna Soukup
STETSON, ME – FEBRUARY 21: Gail McCarthy smells the clothes her son Matthew died in. She said that she couldn’t bring herself to wash the clothes because they still smell like Matthew. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)
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