On the Job 

Blue Courage, a nationally recognized program containing workshops that cover topics such as police culture, resilience, and positive psychology, has been added to the basic and advanced training required of Ohio’s law enforcement officers. 

When I started my career as a Greene County assistant prosecuting attorney, heroin was a drug found in the back alleys of big cities. 

Efforts by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to fight the state’s heroin epidemic drew the attention of 60 Minutes, which put together a “Heroin in the Heartland” segment focusing on drug use in the suburbs of Columbus.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Heroin Unit, developed in 2013 to help law enforcement pursue high-level traffickers and to work with communities affected by the opiate epidemic, combines the talents of the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC), the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the Special Prosecutions Section and drug-abuse outreach specialists. 

A former heroin addict who spoke at the “Taking Back Our Communities” conference and resource fair in Mason, Ohio, said his recovery was a “journey of a million tiny steps.”