you have a whole world of terms because tomorrow was the day that he said i m done. reporter: both brian and stephanie believe honesty about their anguish has saved lives. bret? bret: bryan, thank you. up next, the president s transportation secretary on rebuilding the roads and bridges that your family travels on every day. phone with our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won t go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it.
on january 27th, our beautiful son andrew died from overdose of heroin. he was 23 years old. reporter: stephanie oswald is one of a growing number of parents publicly sharing their child s battle with addiction in their obituaries. people have to it as a dirty little secret because it s everywhere. it s just everywhere, and so the more people who are honest about what s going on out there, the more attention it can get. reporter: andrew s addiction after being prescribed oxycodone following an accident. he then began using heroin. her only child died alone in his apartment. no parent, no parent should ever have to bury their child. reporter: for stephanie, sharing her son s addiction was not an easy decision but important to help parents suffering in silence.
have written honest obituaries to expose how damaging it is. using heroin once is all it takes to get hooked. from then on you are playing russian roulette. this is what happened to andrew. laura: here is a close look at the story. hi brian. mother s day is not an easy day for everyone. for stephanie oswald, this is her first without her son andrew. despite rehab, he died alone in his apartment from a heroine overdose. it s not the kind of things parents would usually include in their childhoo obituary but stee did. on january 27, 2017, our beautiful son andrew died from a heroin overdose. he was 23 years old. no parent should ever have to bury their child.
have written honest obituaries to expose how damaging it is. using heroin once is all it takes to get hooked. from then on you are playing russian roulette. this is what happened to andrew. laura: here is a close look at the story. hi brian. mother s day is not an easy day for everyone. for stephanie oswald, this is her first without her son andrew. despite rehab, he died alone in his apartment from a heroine overdose. it s not the kind of things parents would usually include in their childhoo obituary but stee did. on january 27, 2017, our beautiful son andrew died from a heroin overdose. he was 23 years old. no parent should ever have to bury their child.
more parents are using stark candor in their child s obituary about heroin addiction to reach out to families struggling in silence, feeling shame and embarrassment. people have to stop seeing it as a dirty little secret. it s everywhere. the more people who are honest about what s going on out there, the more attention it can get. andrews addiction began after being prescribed oxycodone after a car accident. stephanie said she was hesitant at first about being so public. since he had kept it such a secret to all of his friends here, i feel like i outed him in a way. it was momentary, but i still felt that. the obituary had an impact immediately. strangers, other parents who lost kids to addiction came to