After complaints of delays, opioid-fighting grant money finally released [Video]

From the depths of losing her son Nick to a polysubstance overdose at the age of 20, the connection to other grieving families became a lifeline to Robyn Houston-Bean.”I didn’t know how to go on. I really didn’t. I was always been a type A personality, and this brought me to my knees,” Houston-Bean said. “It was the power of connecting to peers, to people who understood what I was going through. That made a lifeline connection for me. And that’s what I wanted to give back to the rest of the community.”After Nick’s death in 2015, Houston-Bean started The Sun Will Rise Foundation in Braintree, which offers grief support to people impacted by the overdose crisis.”It’s peer grief support because every facilitator that we have is a person with lived experience. They have experienced a similar type of death,” Houston-Bean said.”We’ve come a long way, especially in Massachusetts, but …