WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid crisis. Today, we hear a conversation between Dustin Aubry and Bob Lloyd. They first met at a meeting of the Dayton support group Families of Addicts or FOA. Aubry is in recovery from longterm addiction, and Lloyd’s […]
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You Can Be OK: Stories Of Motherhood And Addiction
WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid crisis. This installment introduces us to two Loris: Lori Erion and Lori Yuppa. The women share more than just a name. Both have had children touched by opioid addiction. The experience led Erion to create the Dayton nonprofit Families of […]
Read MoreThe Beginning Of My Life: Family On The Journey From Heroin Addiction To Recovery
WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid crisis. Today, we meet Urbana 31-year-old Sarah Clay. In 2007, Sarah met her husband Justin. “We worked together at a factory. We hit it off pretty quickly. We moved in and I was pregnant within four months,” Sarah says. […]
Read MoreA Boy In A Man Costume: Two Generations Of Addiction And Recovery In Dayton
WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid epidemic. In this story, we meet Trotwood-native Andre Lewis and his friend and recovery sponsor William Roberts. Roberts works in social services in Dayton and is a church pastor with nearly three decades clean. As Lewis explains in this […]
Read MoreDiamonds and Demons: Portrait of a Tennessee Community in Recovery
“We’re faced with an epidemic to opiates and it has affected just about every living room in this community, very much like it has across our entire nation.” –– Charlene Hipsher, Roane County District Attorney General’s Office. The statistics are numbingly familiar. In 2016, more than 64,000 Americans died from […]
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