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(LifeSiteNews) — Brianna MacDonald of British Columbia began smoking pot when she was only 10; at age 12, she was taking ecstasy. She told her mother Sarah and stepfather Charles that she took the drugs to kill the “dark demons” inside her and struggled with bipolar and early onset schizophrenia. She ended up in the hospital after an overdose in February, landing first at B.C. Children’s Hospital and then the psych ward at Surrey Memorial, where she screamed at staff and had to be restrained. By August, she was dead in a homeless encampment in Abbotsford, B.C., of cardiac arrest likely brought on by an overdose. She was only 13 years old.
MacDonald’s family is saying that it didn’t have to end this way. Indeed, they had pleaded for help but had been given none. As the National Post reported:
The family begged the hospital to keep her and provide treatment. Instead, Brianna was discharged. The family was told Brianna had the right to decide for herself, despite being just 12 years old. And even though Brianna had ‘over 20 documented suicide
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