Benefits discussed of Trumbull Naloxone project

WARREN — Joseph Yuhas remembers the day at age 15 that he discovered that alcohol made it easier to cope with the horror of watching his alcoholic father beat his mother.

“When I saw my mother hit the ground, I grabbed my sister, closed her ears and ran to her room, shut her eyes, and said, ‘Everything’s going to be OK.’”

He remembers how he went to a friend’s house, and he drank alcohol for the first time.

“That’s when I had my escape from reality. I didn’t have to think about any of that when I took that drink. I really liked it. It brought me out of myself.”

Yuhas now lives in a Warren sober house, where he is house mahager, after coming to Warren last fall in one of many attempts over about four years to get clean.

This time, a factor in his journey into sobriety was a shot of the drug Naloxone, administered by his mother back in Cleveland, where the drug has been available to the public for two years.

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