Mother mourns the loss of her 27 year old daughter to an overdose Mother speaks out after losing daughter to overdose By Breanne Bizette | March 13, 2021 at 8:34 PM CST - Updated March 16 at 6:46 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - In East Baton Rouge Parish, 245 people have died from drug overdose in 2020, and more of those deaths are showing up in 2021. Even before the start of the pandemic, the opioid crisis was a big problem, but now statistics are showing crisis is only getting out of control. The Whitesell family, knows this all too well. Melissa Whitesell is mourning the loss of her 27 year old daughter, Madelaine.