Posted AT 3:10 AM EST on 25/06/05
Staggering losses
HALIFAX — Sometimes the senselessness of it all almost rips Elaine Gabriel's guts out. It will be three years at Thanksgiving that her husband, Scott, overdosed on the painkiller OxyContin in his Dartmouth, N.S., apartment, unable to live any longer with depression driven by his addiction to video lottery terminals.
Just 39, he died in October of 2002, after at least a half-dozen suicide attempts over as many years.
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