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Nik's Run seeks to raise addiction awareness

Nik Fredrick died of a heroin overdose in October 2013 at age 22.

By , Published: April 10, 2017

Patti Fredrick-Enloe kept hoping for the best. Her son, a star athlete in high school, had fallen into addiction, first with alcohol, then pain pills and finally heroin. She hoped he would not become a statistic, one of 13,000 North Carolinians since 1999 to die of an accidental overdose. That hope was dashed when a law officer knocked on the family’s door on Oct. 29, 2013.