Sharon Richmond lost her son Emanuel Vincent D’Antoni in 2017, after he struggled for years with addiction, to a fentanyl overdose. Richmond is encouraged about the decline in fatal opioid overdoses on Long Island, but knows there is still plenty of work to be done.


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