12 Beachwood Buzz November 2016
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You will need to work TWICE AS HARD to get HALF AS FAR in life
if you use drugs, and life has enough hurdles and challenges as it
is," says Adam Bernon, BHS Class of 2005, who is a surviving and
thriving former heroin addict.
He's lucky. He overdosed
on heroin several times. He
acquired a drug possession
record that was recently
expunged. He had numerous
friends and acquaintances who
have died from heroin use. The
guy is no bullshitter. He's also
a stunningly gifted 29-year-old
man with the physicality and
strength of a mixed martial arts
champion blended with the
skills of an acrobatic Cirque Du
Soleil artist and the appear-
ance of the most shredded,
perfectly portioned fitness
model. He also performs feats
of strength that defy what's
typically seen in any gym or
yoga studio.
Six years sober now, Bernon
is a certified trainer who, nine
months ago, opened his own
2,200-square-foot private
gym, called Core Fitness
Training Center, located
in Warrensville Heights,
where he works with
more than 30 clients. He's
as badass as they come. But he
has worked excruciatingly hard
to recover. It's an extremely
long, arduous and painful
process.
Beachwood is seeing the
opioid epidemic, the one
that's stretching throughout
the state, in a range of forms,
and its appearance suggests
that immediate caution,
knowledge and understanding
are demanded.
Both Bernon
and another
fully recovered heroin addict,
Aaron Marks, BHS Class of 2002,
will tell you that kids in school
here possess pills, accessed
from their parents' or grandpar-
ents' medicine cabinets, or from
dealers, and they are not afraid
to try them. Percocet, Vicodin
and Oxycontin off er trips that
kids are willing to take, they
both report.
Marks also describes a percep-
tion that since the pills are clini-
cally-prescribed medicines, they
must not be that bad. Although
some will dodge addiction, others
will not, depending on their
chemistry but irrespective of other
factors in their lives. Drug use is
not the exclusive domain of the
emotionally, mentally or physically
compromised, sources explain.
The opioids fi rst become the best
friends, then the worst enemies, of
"normal" kids and adults.
Beachwood Chief of Police
Keith Winebrenner reports that
there has been a definite "in-
crease in the number of people
arrested with opioid addiction
when they are caught for thiev-
ery and other property crimes."
Theft is one of the chosen
methods used to flip items to
fund a drug habit.
He further notes: "We rarely
saw heroin addicts in previous
years, but now we see them
on a regular basis." When they
arrive in Beachwood's jail, a
doctor is contacted to deal
with their need for medication
to ease the grip of addiction.
Also, if officers arrive on a
scene where an overdose is
underway, they are trained to
administer the inhaled medi-
cation Naloxone to reverse the
symptoms.
Addicts often are discovered
when they're stopped for traffic
violations or involved in acci-
dents. Cars are searched and
telltale signs of drug use are
typically needles, cotton balls
and rubber bands. Officers' ra-
dar is also up during their time
stationed in all of the Beach-
wood schools throughout the
day where "they are always on
the lookout for possible drug
activity," Winebrenner states.
Beachwood Police Captain
John Korinek reports that opi-
oid use cuts across all demo-
graphics, and most often starts
with a prescription for a pain-
killer. The progression to heroin
arrives because it's cheaper and
more potent, but it's also being
driven by a modification to the
widely prescribed drug Oxy-
Contin. "The FDA changed the
formulation in 2010 by adding
a coating so that crushing and
snorting it no longer works,
Opioid Epidemic
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"We rarely saw heroin
addicts in previous years,
but now we see them on
a regular basis."
Keith Winebrenner,
Beachwood Chief of Police