Ohio lieutenant governor Mary Taylor came out recently and said she knows the first-hand experiences of whatever families are going through with family members that are struggling with drug addiction. The use of heroin is this widespread it affects everybody and no family is almost untouched. The state of Ohio and actually the United States of America need to do something to combat this problem with drug addiction
the problem is there's a lot of drug addiction programs that are in it just for the money. Their success rate is very low and I believe it needs to be more highly scrutinized than ever before. The inspections need to be done where the drug rehab places never know when the inspectors will be common.
Taylor could well be Ohio’s next governor; she’s certainly one of the Republican party’s front-runners heading into the 2018 election. But as she’s been canvassing the state for political support, few knew of the worry, terror and anxiety she felt privately until she sat down with Dayton reporter Laura A. Bischoff.
Taylor talked of the addictions of her two sons – Joe, 26, and Michael, 23, — and the past five years of failed drug rehab programs, two overdoses at home, and urgent calls for ambulances.
“I know people who have lost their kids. I’ve been to a funeral of somebody, a young person, who died of a heroin overdose. It’s not pretty. Until we found the treatment that worked for (our sons,) the voice of worry was very loud and it was very scary. Very scary,” she told the Dayton newspaper.
Taylor said she felt lost during her family’s struggles, even though she had the financial resources to deal with the drug addiction that others lack.
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