Ideas for our Future Conference: March 27
Please mark your calendars to join us for the fifth installment of the “Ideas” conference series focusing on the impacts of the opioid epidemic in Ohio. Ideas for Our Future will address the need to create trauma-informed communities for children impacted by the opioid epidemic. Attendees will hear from experts in the medical field on the effects that early childhood trauma, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), can have on long-term health and life outcomes. Attendees will also hear from professionals in a variety of settings who are working to reduce and reverse the effects of ACEs. Individuals who work with [...]
Stark County Sheriff’s Office seizes $100,000 worth of heroin, carfentanil
PLAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- The Stark County Sheriff's Office seized several ounces of powerful opioids and charged a man with drug possession Thursday, authorities said. Victor Lynn Waiters, 44, was charged with possession of heroin, weapons under disability, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia, sheriff officials said in a news release. Deputies found 24 ounces of heroin and carfentanil while conducting a search warrant at Waiters' home in the 2100 block of 26th Street NE in Plain Township. The drugs are valued at $100,000 on the street, police said. A handgun, $12,141, scales and other drug paraphernalia were [...]
Ohio Congress members seek federal money to fight opioid abuse
WASHINGTON - Weeks after President Donald Trump officially declared opioid abuse to be a national public health emergency, a bipartisan group of Congress members from Ohio wants him to put the government's money where his mouth is. On Monday, Republican Rep. Dave Joyce of Bainbridge Township and Democrat Tim Ryan of the Niles area released a letter signed by 48 colleagues that urged the Trump administration to allot money to address a problem that kills an estimated 144 Americans every day. The group would like to see the funds included in a spending bill that Congress must pass by the [...]
Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The case arrives with all the routine of a traffic citation: A baby boy, just 4 days old and exposed to heroin in his mother’s womb, is shuddering through withdrawal in intensive care, his fate now here in a shabby courthouse that hosts a parade of human misery. The parents nod off as Judge Marilyn Moores explains the legal process, and tests arrive back showing both continue to use heroin. The judge briefly chastises, a grandmother sobs, and by the time the hearing is over, yet another child is left in the arms of strangers because of [...]
Opioids: The Mother Who Knew Everything and Saw Nothing
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.— Joline Gutierrez Krueger was with her youngest son at the dentist when Devin, her oldest, called to remind her to buy cat litter. “Love you,” he said, before hanging up. It was March 8, a day that would split her life into before and after. Ms. Krueger, 60 years old, was a single mother who rode the ups and downs of raising six children yet had much to be grateful for: a house, a family and a career as a columnist for New Mexico’s largest newspaper. About 45 minutes after Devin called, the phone rang again. Ms. [...]