Kathy Parrilla says she’s “cautiously optimistic” that the lower overdose …

Photo by Ed Runyan | published: June 15, 2018

Kathy Parrilla says she’s “cautiously optimistic” that the lower overdose death numbers so far this year in Trumbull County are a true indicator that the worst of the opiate crisis is in the past. Parrilla is a public heath nurse with the Trumbull County Combined Health District who is running a $220,000 grant-funded program educating children and medical professionals in ways to reverse the crisis.