Today, Albert Mines may look like any roadside lot with a mix of grassy space and woods, but this 324-hectare site south of Moncton has a very important place in history. In the 1800s, this was the site of the "first commercial extraction of petroleum products," according to the Albert County Museum.
This week, Sean Pauley of Riverview celebrates four years of being clean following an opioid addiction to Percocet, first prescribed for a foot injury. New public opinion data suggests most Canadians see the nation’s opioid use epidemic as a serious problem, but they don t recognize it s an every class problem, Pauley says. PHOTO: CLARA PASIEKA/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT
Clara Pasieka, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter “I came this close to being dead,” said Sean Pauley, of Riverview, a recovering addict who this week marks his fourth year of no longer using opiates. Pauley says he was prescribed Percocet, a brand name painkiller than combines oxycodone and acetaminophen, following a foot injury in his thirties. What followed, he said, was 14 years of dependency.