Letters to Matt
Cichocki, MaryBeth
It began with a pop, and then excruciating pain followed by surgery. MaryBeth Cichocki's son Matt became hooked on Percocet prescribed to him for a work-related back injury. As a nurse, MaryBeth knew the dangers of opioids, and cautioned her son against taking too much. Seven years later, her son was dead from a Percocet overdose. Trying to make sense of her son's addiction and death by overdose, MaryBeth bravely voices the ugly side of addict...