Heroin

Reporters Durrie Bouscaren and Camille Phillips have covered a wide variety of issues in the region in the last year. They joined host Don Marsh to…

For a long time, Gary Carmack of Waynesville watched his 25-year-old son James battle a heroin addiction.“He would look at me with these big, sad eyes,…

South St. Louis has a new outreach center for people affected by addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers.The Missouri Network for Opiate Reform…

A patient comes into an emergency room, clearly in pain and begging for medication. Is she physically ill or addicted to narcotics? It’s almost impossible…

It’s commonly understood that prescription painkillers are a gateway drug to heroin—both drugs are in the opiate family and provide similar highs. But new…

(Part 3 of 3)In November 2013 Kari Karidis was in her office at Collinsville High School when a local hospital called to tell her that her son Chaz was in…

(Part 2 of 3)Earlier this month, a new anti-heroin law went into effect in Illinois. The measure requires first responders to carry the opiate overdose…

(Part 1 of 3) - On an April morning in 2014, Kelley McDonald woke up in her suburban St. Charles home and went downstairs to remind her son Sean to take…

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin provided a fairly blunt reply to the proposition that the War on Drugs failed.“By some measure, it has failed,” said Durbin, D-Ill.…

In St. Louis County, 36 people have died from a heroin overdose this year. Although the number is a 23 percent decrease from the 47 fatalities reported…