When a Manchester police officer arrived on the scene, the middle-school age boy was calm.
His mother, shut in the bathroom, had just overdosed on heroin, and he had been doing his homework in the kitchen when someone who lives with the family opened the bathroom door. She had fallen out, unconscious.
The boy told the officer: “I see my mom passed out like that all the time.”
"Imagine living as a child, not knowing if your mom’s going to be dead, passed out, every day,” says Lt. Nicole Ledoux, a detective who oversees the juvenile and domestic violence and heard the details from the officer who had been on the scene.
For many children around the United States, it is not a situation that is left to the imagination. They are members of Generation Heroin – youths who have grown up among epidemic use of opioids in some corners of America and have seen their own drug overdose rates more than triple in 17 states since 2001.
[For more of this story, written by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, go to http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/S...ng-a-heroin-epidemic]
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