Original article from Cleveland.com AKRON, Ohio -- A woman with a history of suffering heroin overdoses had her fourth recent overdose, this time in front of her two nieces, according to police. Lisa Thompson, 47, faces two charges of child endangering in the incident that happened about 11:30 p.m. Monday at a Kipling Street home [...]
Left behind by addict parents, tens of thousands of youngsters flood the nation’s foster-care system; grandparents become moms and dads again By Jeanne Whalen Original article from Wall Street Journal. The police officer who entered Mikaya Feucht’s Ohio apartment found it littered with trash, dirty dishes and plastic milk jugs full of the opioid addict’s [...]
From Crains Cleveland Business The number of deadly heroin overdoses in the United States more than quadrupled from 2010 to 2015, a new federal report finds, and Ohio is one of the states where the problem is the worst. Reuters reports there were 12,989 overdose deaths involving heroin in 2015, according to the National Center [...]
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Original article from U.S. News While heroin use among high schoolers has declined to historical lows, use of the drug among young adults ages 18 to 25 has more than doubled since 2002, according to federal data. But some high schools are taking proactive measures to educate teens on the dangers of heroin and prescription [...]
Original article from Cleveland.com COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday signed a bill tightening restrictions on prescription opioids and making addiction treatment easier to obtain. Kasich praised the law as the next step in his administration's efforts against a nationwide opioid abuse epidemic where Ohio leads the nation in overdose deaths. The new law -- [...]
Original article and images from www.cnbc.com. Taylor Kay was driving on Interstate 290, heading east near Chicago, when a car veered across lanes of traffic into the highway median. "I thought, 'Something is wrong,'" the 26-year-old said. "So I get out of my car, and I see he's overdosing, with a needle still in his [...]
Original Article from Cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio -- At least 42 people died after overdosing on heroin, fentanyl or a combination of the two last month in Cuyahoga County, the medical examiner's office said. The county has now seen more than 500 people die of overdoses in 2016, more than double the 228 who died in [...]
Original article from Cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Bryan Smith's mother forced him into rehab at the age of 15 when she discovered that he smoked marijuana. That was not the drug that would put him on the path to heroin addiction. That drug was a muscle relaxer prescribed to him that same year by his [...]
Original article can be found at the Medina Gazette. Jose Flores, a case management supervisor for Fortaleza Treatment Centers, which deals with opiate addition, said his job at times is “very gratifying.” Flores, who spoke at the Medina County commissioners meeting Tuesday, recalled a conversation he had with one of Fortaleza’s clients. “She told me [...]
