How heroin destroyed an Alabama drug counselor
By AMY YURKANIN - Associated Press - Saturday, September 23, 2017
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - When they found out she would be buried at 10 a.m., April Carpri’s friends quickly made a memorial to place at the head of her grave.
A basic black frame contained a wallet-sized photo of the former social worker surrounded by tributes to her counseling skills. The three women at the gravesite all worked with Carpri at the Shelby County Treatment Center, a clinic that specializes in treating people addicted to opioids. The memorial cited her warmth, humor and even her diligence with patient charts.
The picture brought smiles to the faces of her former coworkers. They vanished when a cemetery worker gently told them that no markers could be placed at the Jefferson County Cemetery - a pauper’s graveyard where plots are marked with numbers instead of names.
Her former boss, Susan Staats-Combs, hesitated with the picture and then threw it into the hole, where it landed on top of the casket. Nearly a month later, Carpri’s friend and former colleague still remembered the clap of the frame against the wood.
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I hope some people have some regards as to the Constitutional rights of those killed by drugs, poison coming across our borders.
