Community Opioid Meeting To Be Held In Mayfield Heights

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH — The Mayfield Heights Police Department will host a meeting in September on the heroin and opioid epidemic. The meeting will be held Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. in city council chambers at Mayfield Heights City Hall.

The meeting, part of the Neighborhood Watch program, will include a presentation hosted by S.P.A.N. Drug Enforcement Unit, which enforces drug laws, targets dealers, and investigates all overdose cases in Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights, Lyndhurst, and Richmond Heights.

In a statement on Facebook, the Mayfield Police said, "Ignorance is not always bliss. Part of the solution to this problem is through education. You will come away from this presentation with more knowledge about the growing threat to our community and the surrounding area."

The department said the presentation will focus on a variety of heroin and opioid related topics, including: why the drugs are spreading at such an alarming rate, the impact the drugs have on a person's brain and body, understanding what an overdose is, signs of a person under the influence, what the drugs physically look like, paraphernalia associated with opioid abuse, and how bad the epidemic has become in Northeast Ohio and across the nation.

Attendees will also hear about tactic in use in Mayfield Heights to deter the spread of opioids within the city. Presenters will also discuss possible solutions to the epidemic.

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