Stepson’s fatal overdose leads to start of addiction center

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Stepson’s fatal overdose leads to start of addiction center

Fri, 05/21/2021 - 03:31
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tristn Jevon Center for Recovery, 704 Wollard Blvd., Richmond, is expected to help people like Tristn Jevon deal with mental health and addiction, his stepfather, Robert Cox, Excelsior Springs, said. Jevon, 22, overdosed on an opioid, fentanyl, and died Feb. 4. Jevon’s birth father had abused him physically, leading to the development of mental health issues, Cox said. “My wife’s former husband was a sociopath, and he was extremely violent towards Tristn and his mom,” Cox said. “That was the heart of that trauma. He was in a house where there were a lot of drugs and he was being abused. My wife got out of that relationship by the time that he was 5, but that’s a lot of early brain trauma.” Getting Jevon to address the mental health issues ultimately failed. “He had struggled with addiction himself, and he went and got dental work done, and (pain medication) pushed him into a relapse,” Cox said. “(Illegal) pills that he got were some of those fentanyl pills…

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