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Monday, August 29, 2016
Katie Heltman overdosed on heroin the day before her 24th birthday and awoke to chaos — paramedics surrounding her and the jarring, cold sensation of Narcan up her nose. The heroin epidemic in northwest Ohio causes multiple overdoses a day. In Lucas County, nearly 3,000 drug overdoses have been reported in the last two years.
One refuge for those broken and bewildered by the epidemic are the weekly meetings of Families After Addiction or Death, a support group run by Team Recovery. Ms. Heltman, a co-founder of Team Recovery, and Mr. Lynn, who attended his first meeting this spring, both sat in the audience Tuesday night.