CT has deep disagreements on how to fight the opioid crisis. It’s leading to heartbreak and anger.

CT has deep disagreements on how to fight the opioid crisis. It’s leading to heartbreak and anger.

In late May, a group of people who had lost friends and family to drug overdoses gathered behind the velvet ropes just outside the House chamber at the state Capitol. Many of them had come to this building time and again to tell their stories to lawmakers, reliving painful memories of some of the worst moments of their lives. But on this day, they’d come full of hope: it was the final stretch of the 2025 legislative session, and they wanted to m…