Police
in East Liverpool, Ohio, shared on Facebook this shocking image showing
parents passed out in their car with the woman's child in the backseat
after a suspected heroin overdose
A police department in Ohio has shared on Facebook disturbing
photos of a man and woman passed out in a car with a toddler in the
backseat after the pair had allegedly overdosed on heroin.
The unsettling images appeared on the City of East Liverpool's social media page on Thursday.
Officials say they decided to make the photos public to raise
awareness of the heroin epidemic in the state, and also to try and deter
people from using drugs while having children in their care.
Addiction to opioids such as heroin, morphine, fentanyl and codeine
in the US has reached the proportions of a full-scale epidemic in
recent years.
Opioid overdoses in us reach epidemic levels forcing federal and state govenrments to take action
In Ohio, which has been among the states hardest hit by the opioid
scourge, there were 3,000 unintentional drug overdoses last year, at an
average of eight per day.
'We are well aware that some may be offended by these images
and for that we are truly sorry, but it is time that the non drug using
public sees what we are now dealing with on a daily basis.
James
Acord, 47 (left), was charged with operating a vehicle while
intoxicated, endangering children. Rhonda Pasek, 50 (right), was charged
with endangering children, public intoxication and not wearing a
seatbelt
'The poison known as heroin has taken a strong grip on many
communities not just ours, the difference is we are willing to fight
this problem until it’s gone and if that means we offend a few people
along the way we are prepared to deal with that,' it says in the caption accompanying the photos.
Source: Dailymail
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