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Heartbroken mom of four warns other parents, reveals how she lost two of her daughters to drugs

This mother lost not one but two of her daughters to ecstasy, while one of them died because of drug use gone wrong, the other committed suicide unable to bear her sibling's loss.

Mosca Burns, a 50-year-old mother, has experienced the tragedy that drug abuse brings and now she is warning other parents. Mosca's elder daughter Joana who was a university student passed away at 22. She had just experimented with ecstasy at the end of year celebrations at her college and it had proved fatal in her case. Just three months later, her sister and Mosca's younger daughter, 17-year-old Marcia killed herself. Mosca said that the younger girl was heartbroken and was going to see a counselor help make sense of her feelings about her sister's loss.

"Joana’s death affected Marcia very deeply, but she kept her true feelings well hidden," said the mother. "She was vulnerable and susceptible and Joana’s death was the trigger to what happened. I didn’t just lose one daughter to drugs, I lost two. It breaks my heart."