Their pictures hanging in the window of an empty store, a Memorial fortune at more than two dozen lives. The youngest was still in high school.
Almost 1 in 10 babies born in the year last in this county of Appalachian tested positive for drugs. In January, police took several high school students, including a grader seventh, with analgesics. Stepping Stone House, a residential rehabilitation for women clinic, takes from the age of 18 patients.
In Ohio, fatal overdose more than quadrupled over the past ten years and in 2007, it had surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death, according to the Ministry of health.
The problem is so severe that Governor John r. Kasich has announced new top spending $ 36 million this month, an unusual step in this era of fiscal austerity. And on Tuesday, the administration of the Obama announced plans to fight drug abuse of prescription at the national level, noting that it was now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and combined heroin in the 1970s.
The pattern of play here looks like a strange wasted cities of the 1980s: a generation of young people who were raised by their grandparents because their parents were drug addicts, and now they are addicts themselves.
"We will raise third and fourth generations of the prescription drug now," said Chief Charles Horner, of the police of Portsmouth, who attack the often notes that more people are dead overdose in Ohio in 2008 and 2009 in the World Trade Center in 2001.
"We should all be outraged," said Horner. "It should be a no. 1 priority."
The County of Scioto (pronounced sy-OH-x), whose seat is Portsmouth made one, bringing what was a very private issue out in public.
A coroner and a pharmacist are among legislators in his State, and a draft Act of the legislature of the State would be more strictly regulate pain clinics where drugs are issued. The most popular drug among drug users here is the painkiller OxyContin.
The efforts of the County received the attention of political leaders of the State, including Governor Kasich, who declared the County a pilot project for the fight against drug abuse.
The problem is so bad that a company of enterprise storage in the County recently complained to Horner Chief that he had difficulty to find enough candidates employment that can pass the tests.
"Here, everyone has a kid who hooked a, said Lisa Roberts, a nurse who works for the Ministry of health of Portsmouth." "" Regardless if you are a Chief of police, a judge or a Baptist preacher. "It is kind of like a rite of passage".
About 10 years ago, when OxyContin first hurtled through the pretty hollow just north of the city where the family lives Mannering, the two younger children were still in high school. Their parents tried to protect, pleaded with his neighbours who were selling the drug to stop. By the middle of the Decade, they have counted 11 houses on their road to campaign that treatment of the drug (including a woman with the sound of the 1970s called Granny), and their two younger children, Nina and Chadwere addicted.
A large majority of young people, officials said, obtain drugs indirectly brokers and other users who have access to the requirements. Nina and Chad, Ed Mannering, father said that he took a friend of 74 years the pills for his sale gateway. Sales were a supplement, the man says McKenzie, verification of social security.
"You drive on the road here, and you think,"all these nice, not one houses made it all,"said mother Judy Mannering, Nina and Chad."But they are. "Oh, they are".
Nina Mannering tried to quit, his mother said. She had a daughter to care for. She was in a program of counseling for a few months, but he told to leave when her boyfriend introduced her pills. At some point, Mrs. Mannering counted the number of comrades in four classes of graduates who had died from overdoses, her mother recalled. The total was 16 years old.
"It is like being in a tornado,", said Ed Hughes, Director of the Centre for consultation, a network of rehabilitation and clinical counselling in the County of drug. "It moved so quickly that families were completely taken by surprise." "They did not know what they were dealing with.".
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