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'I felt shame and fear and helplessness' where she said her daughter your self-esteem and youhas not started pinpointing Mother shares cautionary tale of daughter'swas hospitalized to havebecome a shell of yourself' the severity of opioid and part of her ann surgically She said she doesn't know heroin abuse beyond gen- heroin addiction with Nues North parents removed due to complica-why her daughter started eral drug awareness efforts tions with using syringes tousing the drug. She hadthroughout the school dis- BY NATALIE HAYES Glenview resident PJMarch 22 for the monthlyinject heroin. never taken prescription trict. Pioneer Press Newberg - who said hermeeting of the Parent Advi- "It's been a nightmare- pillslike so many other "We continue to educate 21-year-old daughter hassory Council, Newbergshe was hospirnli7ed be-addicts, and Newberg said our kids through the student Heroin use and overdosesbeen battling a heroin addic- shared her story Her daugh- cause she has no veins left,"she had educated her fromservices department, but have skyrocketed hi the U.S.,tion that started when she ter started using heroin with she said. an early age to avoid drugstargeted heroin use isn't on and to the shock of manywas a 16-year-old sopho- herboyfriend, a former foot- Newberg said she doesn't and alcohol. our radar screen," he said. parents in communities likemore at Glenbrook South - ballplayerat Glenbrookknow where her daughter is "The only thing she sud- "At the end of the day, this is the North Shore area, thehas taken on a mission to South who was three years now. denly cared about was get- something we want to con- drug,aswellasothereducate North Shore par- older, she said. Days after returning to ting high," Newberg said. "I tinuetalking about and opioids, have infiltrated theents about the drug. Newberg's daughter hasIllinois, her daughter left the felt shame and fear andmake it known inour least likely of places - the According to a 2014 Chi.- been in and out of rehabhospital and was missinghelplessness and Ididn't schools - there has to be a suburbs. cagx Thbune report, Newb- more than 15 times, she said, she said. know what to do." semblance of awareness." At Nues North Higherghas held presentations at and despite multiple Stints Newberg's daughter con- Newberg ishoping to Like other concerned School,principal Ryanthe Glenview libraiy, North- injail, she's still using heroin. tinued using she said, evenexpose what she says is theparents at the Parent Advi- McTague saidpainidllerbrook library Deerfield Vil- A Roosevelt Universityafter her boyfriend diedNorth Shore area's growingsory Council meeting Sko- abuse among studentsis lage Hall and with Wilmette study released in 2015 found from an overdose and threeproblem with heroin usekie resident Gail Paskead now more rampant than anyand Skokie police depart- that in Illinois, 25 percent ofof her close friends diedwith a website she startedsaid she was surprised to other dnig, and kids havements. state-funded treatment ad- after using heroin, all within called "North Shore Secretlearn that the stigma sur- been caught trading or buy- "The big thing is, it's amissions were for heroin,a short period of time. Heroin Problem," where she rounding heroin had ing pills between classes. proactiveapproach,"said while nationally that figure Fightingback tears as she lists statistics and resourceschanged for this generation "As a principal thisis Skokie policeSgt.David was only 16 percent Intold her story Newberg saidfor parents seeking help. of teenagers. something I'm very con-Pawlak at the time. "It's not Chicago and the collar coun- she did everything in her The Niles North parent "I asked my kids and they cerned about, because (opi-reactive once you find outties, 35 percent of thosepower to keep her daughtercouncil saidthe schools said no, they hadn't heard of ates) are accessible in a wayyou have a problem." entering treatment reportedoffthe drug to no avail. should be doing more topeople using it,"Paskead we've never seen beftre," he He told the Tribune thatheroin use as their reason "The drug is so physicallystop kids from taking said."ButIdon't think said.