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Growing up, Sean Hindman loved to swim, skateboard, hang out with friends and most of all, play soccer. When Sean was a teenager, he became addicted to prescription opioid painkillers, and spent the following decade in and out of rehabilitation. On Sept. 19, 2016, Sean Hindman fatally overdosed on heroin. He was thirty years old. Sean\u2019s father, John Hindman, has been a Leidos employee since before Sean\u2019s birth. Not long after his son\u2019s tragic death, John spoke with a young man who, thanks in part to Sean\u2019s encouragement, overcame his own battle with addiction. This conversation reaffirmed John\u2019s decision to become an advocate for preventing drug addiction, a crisis he rightly describes as \u201ca tsunami threatening the very fabric of our society.\u201d As it turns out, John is not the only member of the Leidos family affected by the opioid epidemic\u2014far from it.\xa0 As the news of Sean\u2019s death spread across the company, John realized he wasn\u2019t alone.

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