Second Avon Lake Drug Abuse Forum Set For Aug. 13

The city of Avon Lake facing an apparent heroin and drug problem head on, has scheduled a second drug abuse forum at Avon Lake Public Library, this one with a focus on resources, for Tuesday, Aug. 13 starting at 6:30 p.m. 

The first drug abuse forum was in early July.  

That June 11 forum is available to view online through Avon Lake Cable. 

“We were very pleased at how many people showed up for the first event,” Avon Lake Mayor Greg Zilka said of the several hundred attendees. In addition to standing room only in the Avon Lake library, where the next forum will again be, a downstairs room held people watching the forum via closed caption television.

“This forum won’t be as long in presentations, but will include more than 20 professional groups.”

Zilka gave a lion’s share of the credit to city’s Recreation Program Coordinator,

Lisa Goodwin, who initially brought the problem to the mayor’s attention.

Lisa Goodwin has done the hard worker behind this,” Zilka said.

The three scheduled speakers are Pharmacist Brenda Brent, Walgreens Pharmacy; Tom Stuber, President of Lorain County Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services; and Chris Colon of the DEA  Drug Task Force.

Zilka said discussions will include the pharmacological impact, urging those with prescribed medications to keep them locked up.

“One scam is for (addicts) to attend open houses and rifle through medicine cabinets,” Zilka said.

Tables will be set up with information from participants (below).

A generic table with a wide range of handouts for all ages, including coloring books, stickers, etc., will be available. This table will include a raffle for a “Med-Safe.”

Participants:

1.      Walgreens

2.       Lorain County Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services (LCADA)

3.       Lorain County Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services

4.       Celebrate Recovery

5.       ASSIST Avon Lake

6.       State Attorney’s Office

7.       Addiction Outreach Clinic

8.       SOLACE of Lorain County

9.       Communities That Care

10.     Avon Lake Police and Avon Lake Fire departments 

11.     Family Anonymous

12.    Road to Hope Foundation

13.    Project Dawn

14.    Julie Adams House

15.    Robby’s Voice (tentative)

16.    AA, Ala-non, HA & Ala-Teen

17.    A generic table with a wide range of handouts for all ages, including coloring books, stickers, etc.  At this table we will raffle aMed-Safe.

17.   A generic table with a wide range of handouts for all ages, including coloring books, stickers, etc.  At this table we will raffle aMed-Safe.