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Ohio Opioid Crisis Described; Sheriff's Wife addicted, loses son and husband due to addiction.

In the below posting, an Ohio Sheriff describes his learning process as a husband and also as a law enforcement officer.  Parallel stories of a young lady with a 4.0 GPA and success in life and the Sheriff's wife are reported.  As reported in earlier posts, Morgues are so overcrowded that refrigeration trucks were purchased to hold bodies and Morgues are redesigned to contain more bodies; staffs are increased. 

[So far, the program has helped men exclusively, but in the fall, Leahy and GCBHS will open a women's version in another wing of the jail. The Clermont jail now houses between 90 and 100 female inmates, nearly double the number a decade ago, Leahy says. Virtually the entire increase in population, he says, can be attributed to the crisis. Opioid overdoses have increased 2000% in Clermont County since 2007.]


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/health/ohio-heroin-opioid-crisis-morgue-full/index.html