Behind every obituary lies a story.
Susan Acord knows them too well: Alex, Ronnie, Laura Sue, Sal, Mike, Andrew, Clayton, James… These are just some of the people she has known in the Methow Valley that have died from drug or alcohol addiction in the past eight years.
Some of the people on her list she has known since childhood. With others, she sold or used drugs.
Acord has been clean for four years. She…