As Beau Zeis talked to a crowd about his decade-long drug addiction, almost-4-year-old Charlee and 2-year-old Layla played at his feet on the bandstand at Woodstock’s Park in the Square. […]
A confluence of circumstances created the national opioid crisis in the late 1990s: the medical community’s acceptance of the idea that opioids were rarely addictive, the pharmaceutical companies’ aggressive marketing of […]
McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally believes that we have no one but ourselves to blame for the opioid crisis. “We did create the disease from the ground up,” he […]
ABOUT THIS SERIES The Independent today begins a four-part examination of how the Woodstock community has been affected by the silent, invisible killer of opioid addiction. Oct. 17: Even in […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
