Four-year-old boy pictured in car with parents overdosed on heroin finds new home
Police in East Liverpool recently shared the image on social media * <http://www.independent.co.uk/author/justin-carissimo> Justin Carissimo New York * <https://twitter.com/JstnMchl> @JstnMchl * Wednesday 14 September 2016 The four-year-old boy who was pictured sitting in the backseat of a vehicle while his grandmother and her friend passed out from apparent overdoses is heading to a new home. Police in East Liverpool, <http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Ohio> Ohio recently shared the photo on Facebook to illustrate the dangers of heroin addiction. Now, the boy is moving in with his great-aunt and uncle in South Carolina, Columbiana County Court Administrator Dane Walton <http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-shocking-ohio-heroin-picture-headin g-new-home-n647676> told NBC News on Tuesday. Mr Walton said that the young boys grandmother, 50-year-old Rhonda Pasek, is currently in jail on charges of endangering a child and public intoxication. She was granted custody of the child just six-week prior to her arrest. The man in the photo, 47-year-old James Lee Acord, was also taken into custody. READ MORE * <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/heroin-picture-parents-ohi o-police-child-a7235621.html> The story behind the photo of two heroin users and their four-year-old child * <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cincinnati-heroin-overdose s-spike-drug-abuse-narcotics-ohio-a7207496.html> Cincinnati records massive heroin spike with 20 overdoses in single night Police first pulled over the vehicle after it was swerving on the road. When the officers realized the driver and passenger were barely conscious they administered the life-saving drug Narcan, which reverses the effects of heroin overdoses. On Facebook, authorities with the city of East Liverpool explained exactly why they shared the graphic images on social media last week. We are well aware that some may be offended by these images and for that we are truly sorry, but it is time that the non-drug using public sees what we are now dealing with on a daily basis, the statement <https://www.facebook.com/cityofeastliverpool/photos/pcb.879927698809767/879 927472143123/?type=3&theater> read. <http://conditions.healthgrove.com/> Heroin Overdose Deaths in the United States | HealthGrove The poison known as heroin has taken a strong grip on many communities not just ours, the difference is we are willing to fight this problem until it's gone and if that means we offend a few people along the way we are prepared to deal with that. EM On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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