I’ll never recover from friend’s overdose & feel guilty that I wasn’t there

DEAR DEIDRE: MY friend died after taking an overdose and I didn’t see it coming.

We had plans to meet a few weeks before she died, but I cancelled.

At the time she reassured me and told me not to worry.

I was going to call her later to rearrange but didn’t get round to it until a few hours after she overdosed, which was devastating.

I am a 32-year-old man, and my friend was 30.

We had known one another since university and had always kept in touch.