Point of pride: My hometown is the subject of an A&E show Intervention. Bad part, it is on Meth use and prescription pan pill. Fantastic.

Tune in at 8:00pm on A&E to see rednecks and hicks addicted to pills and meth. Makes me proud, geesh. Makes me glad I left.

Yee Haw...makes me feel dirty just watching this.

This is embarrassing. I've already seen 2 or 3 people I know, and not in a good way.
Man, the first 2 minutes were awful. I knew it was bad, but damn I didn't know it was this bad.

I work at SOMC and see this stuff every night. Had two newborns test positive for opiods and barbiturates just the other night. Its exploded the past 5 years...

I can't watch that show anymore. Too freaky. It's just crazy what people put into their bodies sometimes.

Incredibly, incredibly sad. As much as I don't feel bad for people who do that to themselves, I can't help but feel bad for the mom and dad (and especially the two little kids) and hope that they get their lives straightened out. Of my friends that have had severe addictions, very few thankfully, I've seen that it seems to be more likely for them to keep clean when they have something to work for, or someone to do it for, like their children. It's really hard for this 23 year old to keep herself motivated because she's really not in the same situation the parents are. I hope for everyone involved in the family and especially the kids that the two parents can turn their lives around, because that's absolutely no way for two little kids to be growing up.

What is really sad is this is not just a Scioto Co. or southern Oh. problem. A small town (aprox 8500 population) close to where I live has had quite a few heroin overdoses in the last few years. It just amazes me how prevalent heroin is in the small towns. I know this show was highlighting the pill usage, but hard drug use is running rampant across small town USA

Heroin use is outta control in Lancaster its pretty f'in sad.

My hometown was featured on an episode of Oprah a few years ago. Lisa Ling did an in depth report on heroin in Richland County and profiled a girl I used to cheerlead with and her boyfriend....who happens to be my first cousin. He was shown being arrested and put into a cop car. Proud.

Lisa now has her own show on Oprah's network and she went back to Plymouth to visit with the people in the original episode. The girl is now clean but has been in and out of jail several times and also gave up a baby for adoption (would have been my 2nd cousin) in the years since she was on Oprah. My cousin is clean on the follow up but that was actually last Summer/Fall so who really knows by now.

Plymouth has a population of 1800 and heroin is everywhere. Several kids I graduated with used (or still are using). There have been a few overdoses as well. No one that I was particularly close with but in a town that small you know everyone. It's sad. I love my hometown and would love to raise a family there (or somewhere like it) but when you see stuff like that it makes you think twice.

drugs are pretty much everywhere now a days. i guess in a small town you just have a better chance of knowing someone who has a problem. its a sad thing to witness thats for sure, which is why i can't really watch that show anymore.

gerb131;738850 wrote:Heroin use is outta control in Lancaster its pretty f'in sad.

My brother in law is a detective and on the drug team or whatever they call it. He said per capita Lancaster is #3 in the country in heroin. He said there's no real explanation for it, but it's completely out of control. Pills in Lancaster are bad top. The Bp at the corner of 6th and high street is a major drug problem. Pills are flying all over that place. Very very bad in Lancaster.

Glad to see they posted the pill mill last weekend.

Midstate01;739006 wrote:My brother in law is a detective and on the drug team or whatever they call it. He said per capita Lancaster is #3 in the country in heroin. He said there's no real explanation for it, but it's completely out of control. Pills in Lancaster are bad top. The Bp at the corner of 6th and high street is a major drug problem. Pills are flying all over that place. Very very bad in Lancaster.

Glad to see they posted the pill mill last weekend.

I used to live a few blocks from there about five years ago and we were constantly dealing with drug dealers, users and other drug-inspired criminals. It seemed like it was more meth than anything else, but that was five years ago. That's why we moved to Pickerington. Then, we found out that they have a pretty big problem with heroin in the schools. I guess it is just about everywhere now.

I was born and raised in Portsmouth and it makes me sad to see that my hometown is in such terrible condition.

Everytime I drive through Portsmouth/New Boston, I wonder why the hell anyone would want to live there. It's just a very depressing, delapidated area. It's sad really.

se-alum;739057 wrote:Everytime I drive through Portsmouth/New Boston, I wonder why the hell anyone would want to live there. It's just a very depressing, delapidated area. It's sad really.

It isn't that much better in the eastern part of the state. I don't think many people realize how devastating the opiate/meth-abuse is in rural America, and you have folks that try to play it down. When people are stealing copper and electrical wires from homes and churches to fund their habit, it becomes a public issue.