Cold as Life’s Jesse Adkins on New Single Tackling Mother’s Losing Struggle with Opiate Addiction

StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Cold as Life frontman Jesse Adkins (bottom right in the courtesy photo above) for a conversation about the iconic Detroit band’s recent single Suffer, which finds Adkins confronting his mother’s losing battle with opiate addiction. In our conversation, Adkins discusses what it was like to grow up neglected by a mother addicted to drugs, and gives advice to any young person facing a similar situation.

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