'You're completely lost': Iroquois Falls woman marks 2 sad 10-year anniversaries

Ten years ago, Lynn Festarini-Jones was feeling numb as she faced a new year.

The paper mill in her hometown of Iroquois Falls— where generations of her family worked, including herself and her husband— closed for good on Dec. 22, 2014.

"It was devastating because we knew we were going to lose so much," she remembered.

And just four days later, she got a knock at the door and was told that her 27-year-old son Scottie had died of an overdose after taking something called fentanyl.

"I still hear that cop's voice in my head every day," Festarini-Jones said. 

"You literally go into shock. You become numb. You're completely lost."

In this feature interview, she looks back on the past 10 years and what it has meant for her town, her family and how far we've come in addressing the opioid crisis.

Morning North12:17Iroquois Falls woman marks 10 year anniversary of mill closing and son's overdose death

10 years ago, Lynn Festarini-Jones was facing a new year without the paper mill that had been the lifeblood of her hometown of Iroquois Falls and her 27-year-old son Scottie, who died of a Fentanyl overdose just four days later. The CBC's Erik White spoke with Lynn, her husband Peter, and their many dogs, and began by asking about the closing of the mill.