Rally part of statewide effort on National Overdose Awareness Day Posted on September 1, 2016 0 Cindy Koumoutzis, the state director for Ohio Change Addiction Now, tells the crowd of her personal story of her daughter dealing with an addiction to heroin. She and other speakers spoke to a crowd of around 100 people on the Bucyrus City Hall steps calling for a change in how addicts are treated when seeking recovery and a change in the availability of recovery options. BUCYRUS — “My daughter didn’t need charged as a felon. She needed help,” Cindy Koumoutzis said. Koumoutzis is the state director for Ohio Change Addiction Now, and was one of around 100 people who took to the steps of the Bucyrus City Hall on Wednesday night to call for more ways to help recovering drugs addicts during National Overdose Awareness Day. Koumoutzis shared how drug addicts are not addicts by choice, and said most are not bad people. She shared her experiences dealing with her daughter’s addiction as a family member. Her daughter used heroin the night before receiving an honors diploma from Kent State University. “A lot of addicts are good and smart people,” Koumoutzis said. “They just have a serious illness.” Many of the speakers at the event shared how addiction needs to be treated as an uncontrollable illness instead of treating the addicted like “junkies” who chose to become addicted. Login Login Password Signup Here Lost Password Subscribe to the Daily Chief to read the full story... Get your Wyandot County news in print AND online! Subscribe! OR Try a 1-Day Access Pass for Only 99¢! 1-Day Access Are you a current subscriber to the Daily Chief-Union? NO PURCHASE NECESSARY! If you currently subscribe the Daily Chief-Union in print, then your access to the online content is INCLUDED in your subscription! Just verify your subscription to get started! Verify Your Subscription
