Police Shares Shocking Photos of Shameless Parents Overdosed in Heroin as Epidemic Sweeps America

Posted by Odinaka on Sun 11th Sep, 2016 - tori.ng

Horrifying photos of parents passed out by school bus after overdosing in their car with 4-year-old boy in the backseat reveal the terrible toll of the opioid epidemic sweeping America

Police in East Liverpool, Ohio, shared on Facebook this shocking image showing parents passed out in their car with the woman's child in the backseat after a suspected heroin overdose

A police department in Ohio has shared on Facebook disturbing photos of a man and woman passed out in a car with a toddler in the backseat after the pair had allegedly overdosed on heroin.

The unsettling images appeared on the City of East Liverpool's social media page on Thursday.

Officials say they decided to make the photos public to raise awareness of the heroin epidemic in the state, and also to try and deter people from using drugs while having children in their care.

Addiction to opioids such as heroin, morphine, fentanyl and codeine in the US has reached the proportions of a full-scale epidemic in recent years.

Opioid overdoses in us reach epidemic levels forcing federal and state govenrments to take action

In Ohio, which has been among the states hardest hit by the opioid scourge, there were 3,000 unintentional drug overdoses last year, at an average of eight per day.

'We are well aware that some may be offended by these images and for that we are truly sorry, but it is time that the non drug using public sees what we are now dealing with on a daily basis.

James Acord, 47 (left), was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, endangering children. Rhonda Pasek, 50 (right), was charged with endangering children, public intoxication and not wearing a seatbelt

'The poison known as heroin has taken a strong grip on many communities not just ours, the difference is we are willing to fight this problem until it’s gone and if that means we offend a few people along the way we are prepared to deal with that,' it says in the caption accompanying the photos.

Source: Dailymail