On Thursday, the small Appalachian city of East Liverpool, Ohio, posted photographs on Facebook of a man and woman apparently passed out from an opioid overdose. The two adults sit slumped in the front and passenger seats of a car. A small boy looks out from the back. The city warned that the photos might shock and outrage, but that was its goal: "It is time that the non drug using [sic] public sees what we are now dealing with on a daily basis," the city administration wrote in the post. "We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess."
The post attracted more than 4,000 comments on Facebook, and was quickly picked up by the news media. Some compared it to the recent photograph of the Syrian boy in the...
The photos of an overdosing couple in Ohio won’t help anyone — least of all, its subjects
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