Heroine has become a huge epidemic in Ohio and lawmakers are scrambling to fight back to stop it.
According to 10TV
“Attorney General Mike DeWine and state lawmakers are rounding up support at the Statehouse for a new effort to fight Ohio’s opiate epidemic. DeWine wants to do to drugs what was done with cigarettes years ago: make them uncool.
“We have to change the culture in regard to how we look at opiates, how we look at pain meds, how we look at heroin,” said DeWine. “It is an education about how you live your life.”
The group announced a committee to study drug prevention education. They will look at research and talk to experts on how to effectively teach kids, trying to stop the drug problem from ever starting. The idea is to educate kids from elementary all the way through high school, their entire school career.
The committee is also working on a wellness approach for students and will report back in 90 days. At that point, the leaders will start talking about forming a program and implementing it in schools and likely beyond in the community.
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As Reynoldsburg schoolchildren loaded up on buses and headed home after day two of the school year, School Resource Officer Nikki Riley was watching over them.
Officer Riley views all the students as “her kids”, which means she worries about them, just like her kids.
“Worst thing that can happen is that you can come to school one day and find out that one of your kids overdosed,” said Riley. “We’re there for them for whatever they need.”
But it’s a reality these days, everywhere.
“This is something that’s affecting everybody from the best areas of town to the worst areas of town, nobody’s immune to it,” said Riley. “We have to do something.” ”
