Heroin Addiction

I am just blown away that a relatively small town like Lancaster, Ohio is struggling with Heroin. But it is. There are a few local docs who are over-prescribing Oxycodone. Unfortunately there are also a number of Opiate naive teens using other people's prescriptions. Once they're hooked on prescription opiates, black tar heroin is available and less expensive.

Here in Lancaster, 1 out of 4 teens report using other people's prescriptions illegally. Nationwide it's 1 in 6. The only silver lining is our new drug court and Syboxone therapy. Let's hope this terrible epidemic subsides. . .