Chris Robertson kept his struggle with addiction private for a long time; in the end, it took him to a public place.
His sister, Michelle Trombley, remembers the pit in her stomach when she saw the call come up on her phone as an unknown number. She knew, before answering, who was calling and what it was about.
“The police told me that he was found deceased, in a public park, alone,” she said.
“He had overdosed. All he had on him was his whole life in a duffel bag.”
Robertson, 52, was one of at least 1,706 Albertans who died of opioid poisoning last year. That
