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For Debra Reagan, a Research Specialist at the University of Tennessee,
Being a “good mother” was always foremost in her life. Why then had her youngest son, Clint, had so many problems? Her question was answered when Clint received the dual diagnosis of bipolar disorder and a drug addiction. With this diagnosis Debra felt a hope for cure but then her life was changed forever when on August 6, 2005, Clint died, at the age of 20 from an accidental overdose and bronchial pneumonia. Getting through that First Mother’s Day was pure agony. Debra has written about that day in her essay, “Mother’s
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