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Kent State students create play about growing heroin epidemic

Cody Patton June 28, 2017

She is a temptress, a vixen, a liar — and now she has a face in one Kent State student’s play: “(In)dependent: The Heroin Epidemic.”“Whether you know it or not, you are being affected by the...

0911 Heroin

Our View: An epidemic hitting close to home

September 11, 2016

Recently, the East Liverpool Police Department posted a picture on social media of a couple passed out in a car, from a heroin overdose with a 4-year-old child in the back seat. Most people have seen something...

Vigil serves as awareness program for drug-related deaths

Rachel Duthie August 31, 2016

Education and activism served as the major themes at the International Overdose Awareness Day Candlelight Vigil at Stow City Hall, an event dedicated to people of drug-related deaths.The vigil was held...

Dylan Stone

Losing Dylan: A mother’s story

Editor’s Note: Dylan Stone, a Kent State business major, lost his life to heroin. Dylan’s mother, Juli, agreed to tell the story of her son's addiction in her own words.My son died alone after a 6-month...

Our View: Heroin problem needs solved quickly

DKS Editors February 4, 2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday of an apparent drug overdose, will no doubt be remembered as a gifted actor. “We did not lose just a very good actor,” critic A.O. Scott of the New York Times...

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