WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you intimate conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid crisis. This episode introduces us to two women whose children have struggled with addiction: Becky Walsh and Leanna Perez Green. Leanna’s husband is retired from the Air Force. She says seeking drug treatment for her teenage […]
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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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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 […]
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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. […]
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“Appalachia’s problems are America’s problems.” 100 Days in Appalachia’s Capitol Hill correspondent Jan Pytalski wrote that in a recent reflection on his role covering Appalachian politics in Washington, D.C., but I got to experience that firsthand at an event in Dayton, Ohio, this fall. 100 Days has teamed up with […]
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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 […]
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