Fatal overdoses have increased in Virginia during the coronavirus pandemic by nearly 42 percent in 2020 when compared to 2019. While the state is on track this year for another record-breaking number of drug deaths, there are people looking to get clean and others lending a hand in recovery.
Although their blood types were not a match, Brenton Luper was able to give his mother Karen Luper a piece of his liver. VCU Health performed what’s called an incompatible liver transplant to make this happen.