He died from an overdose. Now his parents are educating others about opioid addiction.
On the morning of June 9, 2017, Tammy and Nazrul Chowdhury awakened to face a parent’s worst nightmare.Their son Austin, only 24, and just weeks removed from receiving his master’s degree from UNC Chapel Hill, lay dead in his room at their Cramer Mountain home, felled by a drug overdose.Austin had thought he was buying heroin on the street. Instead, what he had purchased was mainly fentanyl, a substance far more potent than heroin.The son they knew as being kind, warm, […]
