Johnston, Diane 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 CN ON: Former Canadian Heavyweight Now Champions Drug FightWed, 15 Jan 2003
Source:Temiskaming Speaker, The (CN ON) Author:Johnston, Diane Area:Ontario Lines:164 Added:01/19/2003

NEW LISKEARD -- A son addicted to heroin, who took his own life.

Two more sons dead of drug overdoses, after years in prison for robberies to support their drug addictions.

A wife in despair over her sons' deaths, also lost to suicide.

Former Canadian heavyweight boxing champ George Chuvalo describes the toll as "my own personal family holocaust."

He now travels the country, sharing his story with students in hopes of deterring other young people from the same path.

The 65-year-old Toronto man who stood before more than 1,000 Tri-Town area students earlier this week was old enough to be their grandfather.

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