‘When you look at an addict, that’s someone’s child’

Losing a family member to fentanyl

By: Sophia Mattice-Aldous

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: June 4, 2025

Words: 2,802

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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In the illustration a woman’s hair blows in the wind, obscuring her face. At first glance, the strategic shades of black and gray make the image look like a computer graphic, but it’s hand drawn with pencil.

That creativity is one aspect of Jasmine Irene Martin that her older sister, Antonia Patterson, would like people to remember her for.

“I don’t want people to judge her by her death, because that’s not who she was,” Antonia said. …

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