When Elina Curran’s only son, Chris Wivholm, died of a fentanyl overdose in 2018, it felt like her world was over.
“I was in such great pain,” Curran said two years later. “Basically my life ended with his death.”
But her mission had only just begun. Curran founded the Chris Wivholm Foundation in Eden Prairie, where she and Chris had lived since 2005, to fund addiction research, end social stigmas against families and individuals struggling with opioid addiction, and award an annual scholarship to an Eden Prairie student in Chris’s honor. Continue reading.