A Small Town Confronts Its Addiction Crisis

Hope for the Future –

December 16, 2018 – “I have hope for my children and their future. I will do whatever it takes to help my children live a better life.”  Shannon Marie Johnson is a mother of four who lives in East Liverpool. She says she has lost a lot of good friends and acquaintances to heroin. She says talking to her kids about these deaths has been one of the hardest things she has ever had to do. But she says, she still has optimism about the future of the town.

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