New support group for people who have lost loved ones to drugs starts this week in Baton Rouge

The Advocate - After losing her son to drugs in 2015, Gwen Knox experienced a unique kind of grief. She felt some sense of relief that her son was no longer suffering, followed immediately by extreme guilt. 

"With the relief comes the guilt because how could a parent be relieved about the death of their child?" she said. "There's so much shame connected with that death. … Parents end up grieving in secret because they don't want people to know how their child died. You're worried people will consider you a bad parent."