Opioid summit planned

YOUNGSTOWN

The community’s fifth opioid summit – adolescents and opioids – will be from 10 a.m. to noon Friday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 343 Via Mount Carmel Ave. The summits are sponsored by Mahoning County Mental Health and Recovery Board and the county’s juvenile court.

Featured speakers are Lori Criss, director of Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Judge Theresa Dellick of juvenile court; Karen Romano-Melone, juvenile court magistrate; Dr. Daniel Brown, chief medical officer for Meridian HealthCare; and Luke Wollet, a former Poland and Kent State athlete now two years sober from his addiction to pain medication. Derek Steyer of 21 WFMJ-TV is the moderator.