Drug deaths remembered at Trail of Truth Nearly 4,000 hand-painted tombstones were placed on the National Mall, stretching from 7th St. SW to 12th Street SW this weekend.

The tombstones featured the names, pictures and stories of those who had lost their battle with drug addiction.

Trail of Truth is the grassroots organization behind the display that it calls a “national cemetery for substance use related deaths.”

The organization was started by Alexis Pleus, who lost her son to an overdose 10 years ago. The goal of Trail of Truth is to change policies regarding access to treatment, reduce stigma and distribute opioid settlement funds in ways to reduce preventable deaths.

“The other part of that is just having community and just being together, because everyone who’s here understand

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