Heroin Hiding Spots Revealed in Mock Teen Bedroom

NEW LENOX, IL - A model teenage bedroom that helps parents identify places where their sons and daughters might hide heroin or other drugs will be on display outside the New Lenox police station on Wednesday.

The mobile trailer is the Heroin Epidemic Relief Organization’s “Hidden In Plain Sight,” an 8 by 16 foot model bedroom that shows “dozens of places where a teenager might hide heroin or other dangerous drugs,” according to a news release from the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The public is invited to view the trailer when it will be in front of the New Lenox Police Department, 200 Veterans Parkway at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The HERO group is working with Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, the New Lenox Police Department and Lincolnway Christian Church on the effort.

“HERO is working through this partnership and this program to alert parents to signs that their children might be secretly struggling with a dangerous, life-threatening addiction,” said Bryan Kirk, a co-founder of HERO who lost his son, Matt to a heroin overdose in 2009. “Many times these clues and warning signs are hidden in plain sight. The common items you see every day in your teen’s bedroom might be hiding his or her addiction.”

Photo via Will County State’s Attorney’s Office