Tracy Carathanasis remembers her son, Drew, as the kid who loved hockey.

From the time he was little, he slept with his hockey gloves on his pillow, she said. He always wanted to be the first one at practice, first one at games.

Now his memory lives on.

I had him going to a counselor. He had been in a program, said Carathanasis. I was going to programs. I was going to things to try to help him.

Carathanasis said her son experimented with drugs but was still a thriving student and athlete. She told Drew took too much of his prescribed medication and died from an accidental overdose.

I think the biggest thing was that he was going to school every day, and he was getting good grades, and so I just thought that well as long as these things are still happening, were still doing okay, said

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