A mother whose son died of a drug overdose during coronavirus blockages told the “Ingraham angle” on Wednesday that she “definitely” believes that the isolation caused her death.
Steven Manzo, who suffered from depression, spent much of his 20 years struggling with a drug addiction, but recovered with the help of family and friends. Manzo, who was working as a cook and bartender in Michigan, was fired in mid-March on orders to stay at COVID-19.
“I keep looking out the window and everything seems normal, but it doesn’t feel normal,” Manzo told The Washington Post in an interview on March 20.
“I live downtown with bars and restaurants and there is nobody here,” he added.
Two weeks after that interview, Manzo died of a drug overdose, which host Raymond Arroyo said was his first relapse in eight years.
Suspicions of overdose rose 42 percent in May, according to data obtained by The Washington Post.
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Joanne Manzo told Arroyo that a few days after her son lost his job, he went home and told him “that he will not be able to handle this confinement.”
“He is not someone to lock up and I knew from the beginning that I was not going to be able to handle it,” he said.
In May, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar wrote a Washington Post opinion piece discussing the reopening of the economy and saying the shutdown is having a negative effect on Americans.
“By being locked up and locked up, we are denying ourselves critical health care services and the economic and social dislocation of the shutdown is leading to mental illness and suicide risk,” Azar told “Bill Hemmer Reports” in May.
“So this country must go back to work. We have to go back to school. We have to go back to life.”
Arroyo asked Manzo on Wednesday if he agrees with Azar.
“Yes, definitely,” he said in response. “I know four people who died within a week of an overdose at the same time my son died.”
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“We are in a crisis right now,” he added.
