On Wednesday afternoon, a police officer in East Liverpool, Ohio, stopped a vehicle for driving erratically and made a shocking discovery: The driver was barely conscious. But the East Liverpool incident was unique in one key respect: Someone at the scene snapped photos of the adults passed out in the car with the grim-faced child sitting in back. The city of East Liverpool then took the surprising step of posting those photos to its public Facebook page. Allen said authorities in East Liverpool, a city of 11,000 people, are dealing with heroin-related cases on a daily basis. In particular, Ohio heroin deaths jumped more than tenfold between 2003 and 2014, from 87 to 1,196, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2016 20:06 UTC