CBC: This entire family died of suspected overdoses. Those left say parents with addictions need more support
In a 6-month span, a 16-month-old baby and both her parents died of suspected drug toxicity ... ... Madison's parents, John Cowan and Berkeley Donkervoort, both 38, died months after their only child. All three are suspected to have died of toxic drug poisoning, also called an overdose. From the moment Madison was born, Doig worried the girl would struggle, given her parents' addictions. "It's a dreadful thing to think, but absent of a very powerful intervention sustained over a long period of time, that little girl's hope of anything resembling a normal life was fraught" ... CLICK HERE for the entire story