Rick Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' talks about son's overdose death: 'There is nothing worse'

Rick Harrison of "Pawn Stars" fame is opening up about losing his son, Adam, to a drug overdose last year. 

In a lengthy interview with Graham Bensinger, 59-year-old Harrison said he thinks about Adam every day. 

"In his 20s, he had the drug problems, and I put him in rehab so many times," Harrison said. "Every time, he'd be doing great, and then it would fall back. You hear the same story from a million people. It got really, really bad, and apparently, it wasn't heroin. He ended up getting some fentanyl that killed him."

While Adam was not featured on "Pawn Stars," he reportedly worked at the Gold & Silver Pawn before the popular reality show kicked off in 2009.

In the interview, Harrison reflected on the pain of losing a kid, saying "there is nothing worse" and it makes "you second guess" everything.

"Could I have done something different?" he pondered. "I think I did everything right, but you just sit in your head, 'What if I did this? What if I did this?’"

Adam Harrison’s death

The backstory:

The Clark County, Nevada, coroner’s office said Adam Harrison died from an accidental fentanyl overdose. He was 39 years old. 

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In an incident report obtained by the New York Post, Adam had reportedly been behind bars for months before moving into a guesthouse in the Las Vegas area, where he was found dead Jan. 19, 2024.

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The Drug Enforcement Agency lists fentanyl as a Schedule II controlled substance "that is similar to morphine but about 100 times more potent," and noted two milligrams (less than a grain of salt) of the synthetic opioid can be lethal, depending on a person's body size.