Tuesday, September 18, 2012
CANFIELD
Jo Anna Krohn had a simple message for those listening to her talk about opiate addiction:
“This is something that can happen to anybody.”
Krohn, of Portsmouth, was one of four members of SOLACE, Surviving Our Loss and Continuing Everyday, who spoke to more than 100 people at the Avion Banquet Center in Canfield Tuesday night. Those in the group shared their personal stories and brought their message of prescription and opiate addiction awareness as part of the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic Hope Has a Home Celebration. The event is in recognition of September as National Recovery month.
Krohn is no stranger to the effects of prescription pill abuse. Her son, Wes Workman, was a promising high school football player before he died in 2008 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Opiates were found in his system.
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