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Doug Biggers, whose son, Landon, died of opioid overdose in 2017, pauses in his home office next to a framed photo of his son wearing his favorite jersey, in La Quinta, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. For months, Doug sat silently. He pretended when he could that it wasn't real. He nailed two coat hooks to the wall in his home office and hung Landon's jackets there, as though his son had just stopped by. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

After the overdose: A family’s journey into grief and guilt

By CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press

Brittaney Biggers, whose 20-year-old brother, Landon, died of opioid overdose in 2017, smells a football jersey her brother used to wear in La Quinta, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. “It still smells like him,” she says. She had moved in with her parents to save money for her own apartment and planned to stay a couple months. Then her brother died, and she picked up a second job at a bar so she could work six days a week and be so tired on the seventh she wouldn't have to face it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

After the overdose: A family’s journey into grief and guilt

By CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press