By ED RUNYAN
runyan@vindy.com
CHAMPION
Longtime narcotics investigators Shawn Bain and Michael Powell of Columbus told an audience Friday at the 2019 drug summit at Kent State Trumbull that when they visit families who have lost someone to drug addiction, they see “a lot of enabling.”
Powell said the trouble is when word gets around that a young person is using alcohol or drugs, the attitude is too often, “Jimmy is drinking a little bit, smoking a bit of weed. Well that’s what young people do in our country. It’s just a little bit of marijuana. It’s just a little bit of alcohol.”
Some years later, if Jimmy is in danger of dying from drugs, we take it more seriously. “But I think it’s a little late to show we care.”
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