by Tom Barrett | June 19, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

The drug overdose calls come in the middle of day and in the dead of night, in January and in July, from quiet suburban homes and busy street corners. They’re relentless. As an EMT…

by Tom Barrett | May 15, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

In March of 2017, a 28-year-old Middletown, Ohio, man was found slumped over his steering wheel, unconscious from an opioid overdose. It took six units of Narcan …

by Tom Barrett | April 17, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

A 66-year-old cancer patient under hospice care was prescribed opioids for pain. That is, until …

by Tom Barrett | March 20, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

Emma was prescribed Adderall for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when she was a sophomore in high school. Within a year, she was addicted. She started taking …

by Tom Barrett | February 13, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

For a period of nine months, nurse anesthetist Anita Bertrand abused narcotics through daily injections which were intended for her surgical patients…

by Tom Barrett | January 16, 2019 | Opioid Crisis | 0 Comments

"I believe in Narcotics Anonymous so much…It’s the only way for me. I’m not saying for you…but it’s the only way for me. ...My NA sponsor was 13 years clean and relapsed. It took him six years to get back to NA. Now he’s three years clean." - Jose P. Almost all...