Their works can be found in the front of an empty department store, a makeshift Memorial for more than two dozen lives. The youngest was still in high school.
Almost 1 in 10 babies born last year in this Appalachian County on drugs tested positive. Police caught in January several junior high school students, including a seventh grader with painkillers. Stepping stone house, a residential clinic for women, takes patients in the age of 18.
More than quadrupled in the last decade, and by 2007 car had exceeded crashes as the leading cause of death by accident, in Ohio fatal overdoses according to the Department of health.
The problem is so serious that announced this month of $ 36 million in new spending for it, a Governor John R. Kasich unusual step in this era of budget austerity. And on Tuesday, the Obama plans at the national level announced government prescription drug addiction fight that it was killed more people than cocaine in the 1980s to crack and heroin in the 1970s combined.
The pattern play here has an uncanny resemblance to some blighted cities of 80's: a generation of young people who were raised by their grandparents because their parents were addicts, and now they are addicts themselves.
"We are now, third and fourth generation of prescription drug users increase," the Portsmouth Police Chief Charles Horner said often finds that more people from overdoses in Ohio died in 2008 and 2009 as the World Trade Center attack in 2001.
"We all should be outraged," said Chief Horner. "There should be a priority No. 1."
Scioto County (pronounced: Sy-OH-TUH), whose registered office, Portsmouth is made one, what could have been a very private problem out to the public.
An investigating judge and pharmacist legislators belong to his State, and a Bill in the House of representatives would more exclusive clinics where drugs be omitted regulate pain. The most popular drug among drug addicts, here is the Painkiller OxyContin.
The attention of politicians in control state, including Governor Kasich, which County a pilot project for combating drug addiction has the County efforts.
The problem is so bad that a storage company with business in the County recently to the Chief Horner complained that it had trouble finding enough candidates, the drug testing could be.
"Here, everyone a child has that has addictive," said Lisa Roberts, a nurse who works for the Portsmouth Health Department. "Regardless of whether you are a police Chief, judge, or a Baptist preacher." "It's kind of like a rite of passage."
Years 10 ago, when OxyContin first raced by the pretty hollow North of the city where the Mannering family lives, were the two smallest still in high school. Her parents tried to protect, pleading with neighbors who have been sold to stop drug. By mid decade, they 11 houses on their street, which counted the drug art trade (including a woman in their 70s Granny called), and their two youngest children, Nina and Chad, were addicted.
A large majority of young people, officials said, indirectly received the drugs by dealers and other users that have access to recipes. Nina and Chad's father, Ed Mannering, said that he sell a 74-year-old friend the pills on its doorstep. Sales an addition was, the man said sheepishly, his social security check.
"Driving down the road here, and you think, ' all these beautiful houses, does all the stuff no one ' said Judy Mannering, Nina, and Chad's mother."But they are. "Oh, they are."
Nina Mannering tries to stop, said her mother. She had to maintain a small daughter. It was advice was in a program for a few months, but said if her boyfriend brought their pills to leave. Mrs. Mannering counted at one point the number of school-mates in four graduates, which reminds died of overdoses, her mother because. A total was 16.
"It's like in a tornado," said Ed Hughes, Director of counseling center, a network of rehabilitation and drug advice clinics in the County. "It so quickly moved that families were caught unexpectedly." "They had no idea what to do."
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