Cheryl Juaire hopes the specialty plate will combat stigma and honor those who have died from drug overdoses
When her son Sean was battling opioid addiction in early 2021, Cheryl Juaire made him a solemn promise: One day, she would create a special license plate designed to raise greater awareness of the devastating impact of an epidemic of drug overdoses, which has claimed more than 20,000 lives in Massachusetts in the past decade.
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“He said, `Mom, the only thing I want for my birthday are those [license] plates,‘ ” Juaire said. “I promised not to let him down.”
Four months later, just after his 43rd birthday, Sean was found dead in a friend’s home in Cape Cod, her second son to die of an overdose. A toxicology report showed he had taken cocaine laced with fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is lethal even in tiny amounts.
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