Southern Nevada health officials issue warning about animal tranquilizer
A man who achieved sobriety and climbed out of homelessness is using his network to help his neighbors get into treatment — and he’s doing it one car ride at a time.
Guiseppe Mandell, 42, will celebrate five years of sobriety in July. His brother died from a fentanyl overdose in San Francisco in 2021. He too was a recovery advocate and was sober for nearly a decade before fentanyl took his life.
A former high school athlete, Mandell received a back injury, and doctors soon prescribed him pain medication. He later turned to heroin to self-medicate.
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