Name: Patricia Gaffney on her son's addiction, overdose: 'He kept going backward'
Uploaded: 2022-03-24T19:00:00Z
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: Patricia Gaffney talks about her son Joe, whose fatal overdose occurred on Aug. 11, 2021.

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	Patricia Gaffney talks about her son Joe, whose fatal overdose occurred on Aug. 11, 2021.
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Patricia Gaffney on her son's addiction, overdose: 'He kept going backward'

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