Overdose deaths in the U.S. topped 100,000 a year for the first time ever last spring. Based on the numbers, it may look like this is a war we are losing. But are we? A story of hope started in a little town called Hohenwald Tennessee and is spreading here to Indiana.
Families, communities, and children have felt the impact of drugs across Indiana. There is a chance it has touched your family or someone you know. This war is at our doorstep.
“It is a $43 billion problem. That is how much we have paid out as a state,” said Terrance Wheeler, director of Wheeler Mission. “Funerals, workdays lost, crime, and the emotional toll on broken families, ultimately breaks our communities.”
It has gotten to the point where some policy stakeholders have sought national action in designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.