that leads people to develop chaotic drug use. In 2019, Esters attended a conference on behalf of the New England Users Union (NEUU), to teach participants about how to prevent fatal overdose. Jess Tilley, executive director of NEUU, said of Esters, "We've lost one of our strongest champions in her prime." Before she died, Esters was planning to work with Dr. Miriam Harris, an addiction medicine fellow at Boston Medical Center, on a study that would determine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people who use drugs. Death On June 4, 2020, Esters was found dead, after her mother couldn't get ahold of her and requested a wellness check be carried out by law enforcement at Esters' apartment in Mass and Cass, near BMC. Esters died of a drug overdose in the middle of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Her death occurred during a spike in deaths from fentanyl overdose caused, in part, by the isolation brought on by social distancing. Social distancing forced many people who use drugs to use without the company of people who'd typically reverse their overdoses with naloxone. Esters died days after returning from spending three months with her mother in Florida. Months prior to her death, Esters publicly expressed how isolation is killing people who use drugs. Posthumous dedications On June 18, 2020, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley introduced a congressional record statement remembering and honoring the life of Aubri Esters. $6,547 was raised in Esters' honor and distributed equally to organizations meaningful to Esters; Boston Users Union, SIFMA Now!, Whose Corner Is It Anyway?, and Families for Justice as Healing. “Aubri’s Law”, a bill that would permit the creation of supervised injection facilities in Massachusetts, was named for Esters. In 2021, Esters’ sister, Cheraya, assisted Texas Harm Reduction Alliance in building a mobile clinic which offers wound care, HIV testing, showers, toilets, WIFI, and charging stations to those experiencing homelessness. Related commentary Esters shared, that she’d lost a lot of friends to overdose, many of which she was present for. Esters always expressed urgency around the thousands of lives “we’ve wasted” to fatal overdose. Esters told her friends that if she were to have died of an overdose, she would want the world to know it. Further reading Fentanyl Overdose Reduction Checking Analysis Study MA Coalition for Supervised Consumption Sites Urges Action on Aubri's Law Naming the sites of the opioid crisis in