On Monday at 9 p.m., a Nexstar special on Fentanyl will be airing on WREG. MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Drug overdoses are affecting many families in the Mid-South area. But imagine losing two children within months of each other. That is what a mother is left to endure as she is now raising her daughter's five children. "I'm about all they've got, except for their uncles," said Brenda Diggs, mother of two women who died from overdoses. "I just don't know. It's mind-boggling." Diggs never expected her 42-year-old daughter Kenia Everette Wooten and 34-year-old daughter Keshia Diggs, to die just 3 months apart. She says Kenia, her oldest daughter, grew up fast after having kids of her own at the age of 15. "So she lost her self-esteem," Diggs said. "And I guess she thought building her self-esteem and having sex with guys would make her feel better about herself. She just spiraled and it just was bad." But, she says Kenia had begun to get her life together. Then she got injured at work. "She hurt her ankle, real bad. In fact, I think she broke it, and then they put her on some kind of medicine," Diggs said. When her prescriptions ended, she started doing whatever she could to find pills to relieve her pain. "That's when she decided she could buy other people's prescriptions," Diggs said. She says Kenia started getting pills off the streets. On January 22, 2022, Diggs says she got a call from Kenia's boyfriend. "He called me 'Ms. Brenda, Kenia's dead.' I'm like, 'What? What are you talking about?' I'm asleep, and he's like 'she died. She took something and she died', Diggs said. She raced to the hotel where Kenia was staying. "I went in, and lo and behold, Kenia was on the floor," Diggs said. "The paramedics were there, but she was dead on the floor." She says they ruled the cause of death, as "accidental overdose of fentanyl." That wasn't the only tragedy to come. Kenia's younger sister Keisha had just been released from prison for prostitution. Diggs says she noticed signs something was wrong. "She was in the mirror, combing her hair, and she was nodding, you know like she was asleep," Diggs said. "She was just out of it, like, 'What is wrong with you?' I'm thinking to myself, she's doing something." On March 25, 2022, tragedy struck again. Diggs thought Keshia had gone out, but after days of not seeing her, she checked her bedroom. "Went in there, and the smell just almost knocked me out. Like, what is that smell," Diggs said. "I lost it. I ran out screaming, you know and ran down the stairs and outside with my phone. I called 911, and, you know, I told them, I said, my daughter's not right. Can you please send somebody I think she's sick or something?" Keshia was dead. "Lo and behold, they said it was fentanyl," Diggs said. "She died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl." One deadly drug killed two sisters, three months apart. A tragic story that David Fuller has heard time and time again, as an Overdose Prevention Specialist with the Memphis Area Prevention Coalition. "I wish I could say that that was the first one of those stories that I've heard. But it's absolutely not," Fuller said. He says Fentanyl overdoses have hit a new record from 2016 - 2021, surpassing heroin. But he says in many cases, people don't even realize they are taking fentanyl. "They thought they were doing heroin or something else," Fuller said. "Then what we saw is fentanyl began to infiltrate the rest of the drug supply. Counterfeit pills. Counterfeit prescription opioids." He says fentanyl is so dominant because it's cheap to manufacture and 100% man-made. It's also highly addictive. "It's so powerful that once a user becomes addicted to fentanyl, other drugs are not going to cut it because they're not strong enough," Fuller said. And it's killing people. "It's the deadliest drug that we've seen in this country," he said. "Certainly, to this extent." It's why the Memphis Area Coalition is on a mission to educate anyone who will listen about the dangers of drug use, the treatment available, what overdoses look like, and how to use medications like Narcan to save lives. But for Brenda Diggs' two daughters, it's too late. She says her grandkids are aware of what killed their moms and go through their own stages of anger. "I knew what an overdose was, but I didn't know what fentanyl was. Now I still really don't know what it is. I just know it's a drug. That's it," said Stephan Everett, 14-year-old. "If they just trying to do it to have fun and stuff, I'll tell them no. Like it can be possible they just risking their life just to do drugs," said Jeremiah Diggs, 12-year-old. "It is, crazy like who was supplying this," Diggs said. If you or someone you know needs help with drug addiction, you can call the Tennessee Red Line at 800-889-9789.