There is no single explanation for the run of deaths. Each teen seemed to follow his own path to substance use, propelled by trauma, depression, hopelessness or poor self-esteem — lost to easy availability of drugs and a susceptibility to addiction.
Five years after Lacy and Jackson passed away, their father found Alex at his home with a needle
Cut from table-flat cotton and tobacco fields, Greenville, a racially diverse city of about 90,000, has grown in recent decades. Its economy is strong, though its poverty rate is higher than the state’sThere are a half dozen pharmaceutical facilities in town, along with a medical center and East Carolina University, attended byand drugs are easy to come by, many said.
father, Bill, ran a sod farm. Bill and Fran divorced when Ellie and her brothers, separated in age by just three years, were adolescents. Bill remarried and had a baby, Lacy, with his new wife, Jennifer. “It was cliche, but it was all fun at first,” Chase said. “You’ve got a problem before you know it — not as a figure of speech, but literally. It wasn’t until I was experiencing symptoms of withdrawal that I realized I had a problem.”Ellie Laughinghouse Crout holds a bracelet, left, with compartments containing bits of her late brothers' ashes. At right, she displays a locket that holds some of Jackson’s ashes.
John Stuart Fletcher III, known to everyone as Stuart, had arrived at St. Peter during the sixth grade after a problem with a bully in public school. He was anxious and badly wanted to fit in at his new school,A doctor prescribed clonazepam, which she did not realize could be addictive, for his anxiety. By seventh grade, he was also smoking marijuana.
how he could approach a total stranger just to say how “great” she was. But his own troubles kept multiplying.he died of a fentanyl overdose in 2017. Maria had spent those Still, the burden of survival can sometimes be too much. Jacob, who began medical school this summer at 29, had gone to more than 10 friends’ funerals by the time he was 24. Now, he has lost 20 or 25 friends to drugs.close with Alex. Both came from divorced families and were not as affluent as some of the other boys.
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