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Berea, Ohio parents arrested when 7 year-old son overdoses from heroin, later revived at hospital.

In the below article, both parents were arrested and jailed with $150,000.00 bond after their unconscious child was taken to the hospital and heroin and prescription pills were found in the child's sock.  The parents admitted to the police that they had used drugs earlier the same day.

"It was at the hospital that officers first learned what happened to boy.  Hospital employees found a baggie of heroin and prescription pills tucked inside the boy's sock, records say."

The report also relates that :

The death-rate for heroin, fentanyl and other opiate deaths have skyrocketed from 64 in 2011 to at least 517 in 2016, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/02/berea_parents_charged_in_7-yea.html