Recovering from opioid addiction: ‘I had to get help or I was going to die’

In recent years this newspaper has done posthumous profiles of many people whose lives were snuffed out by their addictions and the ever-more-potent drugs easily available on Ohio’s streets. We’ve reported on the government efforts to curb the climbing death toll and the cost to our communities.

But we heard you, our readers, when you said you want to see the other side of this epidemic — the stories of people who have overcome repeated setbacks and struggle before finally finding hope and recovery.