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. […]
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People can get hooked on opioids – in sickness and in health
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 […]
A medical revolution does harm to one of its own
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.
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