Lou Christiansen, Founder of Westchester Drug Abuse Awareness Group, Dies

Louis Hammershaimb Christiansen Jr., a Somers resident and co-founder of the drug abuse awareness group Drug Crisis in Our Backyard , died of brain cancer on Jan. 4. Christiansen and his wife Carol co-founded the nonprofit organization Drug Crisis in Our Backyard with Susan and Steven Salomone in 2012, after both couples lost their sons to drug overdoses two weeks apart, said Putnbam County Executive Mary Ellen Odell. "At a time where many would be privately mourning, Lou, Carol, Susan and Steven worked tirelessly to make the community aware of the substance abuse epidemic in Putnam and Northern Westchester," she said.

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