Substance use disorder doesn’t fit one demographic or type of person.

For Brady Gilbert, it cost him his life.

Gilbert, who grew up in Sanbornton, died of fentanyl poisoning on Aug. 29, 2021, at age 31. He is now being memorialized in what his mother Dedi Sampson calls a “unique and interesting way” through the Into Light Project exhibit at the Silver Center for the Arts in Plymouth.

“Brady was clean for 11-and-a-half months before he was poisoned by fentanyl,” Sampson said. “I don’t use the word overdose, because no amount of fentanyl is safe. It is poison.”

Sampson said there is a unique network of parents involved with one organization or another, which is how Gilbert’s story was discovered by Into Light. A narrative written by Jill Denton complements a graphite pencil drawing by El

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