IN-DEPTH: A Mother’s Heartbreak After Losing Daughter to Fentanyl

Published on December 20, 2023

Lisa Almond was sound asleep when her 30-year-old daughter opened the bedroom door to tell her the news no parent should ever hear. “My legs felt like they weighed 100 pounds each,” Ms. Almond of Austin, Texas, told the Epoch Times. “And I knew. She didn’t even have to say anything. I knew by her voice what she was going to tell me.” Ms. Almond’s daughter told her that her other daughter, Lauren Almond, had been found dead on the bathroom floor at an Airbnb in the early morning hours of Aug. 9. An autopsy showed the 40-year-old mother of three teenagers, 18, 17, and 15, had died from the toxic effects of fentanyl. Lauren’s children live with their father in California....

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