This interview originally aired on the August 7 Bristol Bay and Beyond.
Earlier this summer, KDLG News spoke with the mother of a young man from Dillingham who had died on account of his addiction to opioid drugs. But what Eleanor Roehl told us about her son George’s death was not what we expected; she said that the medical report indicated George had died of a heart attack likely been caused by an overdose of Immodium AD. Immodium is an over-the-counter drug used to treat diahrrea, but is also by some to ease the withdraw symptoms from heroin. Here to talk more about what she says is a dangerous practice is Dr. Cathy Hyndman, a family physician at the Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham.