Heroin is here. That’s the title of a free drug information seminar scheduled today in Plymouth. The Plymouth Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Number 195 and Committee for a Drug & Tobacco Free Indiana are hosting the free informational session to address the growing problem.
Members of the public, treatment providers, law enforcement officials and parents are encouraged to attend. It will take place from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Plymouth Wesleyan Church. Speakers include Mann Spitler III. He’s a certified prevention professional and will discuss how heroin affects users and their families.
Wabash County Sheriff Robert Land will also address the gathering. Before being elected sheriff in 2011 he served 34 years with the Indiana State Police. During that time, he spent 28 years in the criminal investigation division, was the commander of the CID at the Peru post for 14 years, worked undercover for seven years and spent 10 years with meth suppression. Land will talk about how heroin has affected his community and what they have been doing to combat the issue.
Dan Frantz is a therapist and the president of A New Direction Counseling. He will discuss treatment options and will lead a panel discussion with various individuals. They include a young lady who struggled with heroin addiction as an adolescent, a parent of two adolescent addicts, the director of a recovery program in LaPorte County and an adolescent who will share her story of being the sibling of an addict.
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