The heroin and opiate epidemic is something 21 News first began investigating back in November. In part one of this new series of reports, Addicted, we explore the widespread, merciless drug problem that's killing people at an alarming rate.

Warren Seitz of North Jackson is in the Mahoning County Jail after local police and drug task force agents on Thursday raided the mobile home he shares with his 70-year-old mother in Jackon Township. Police believe Seitz, 48, had been making methamphetamine there for the past several months. “There were several different bottles with hoses attached […]

A coordinated effort by county and local law enforcement agencies nets seven arrests on charges of prostitution and drug-related activity. It was a pre-planned crackdown, that started with agents soliciting prostitution suspects to the Route 46, I-80 corridor. The Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force and the FBI conducted this planned operation Wednesday, with the […]

Since 2007, there have been more deaths in Ohio from drug overdoses than traffic crashes. Here in the Mahoning Valley, what often begins with the abuse of pain medications evolves into heroin addiction.  So much so, that law enforcement has dubbed heroin use here an epidemic. And there's a changing face of addiction in the […]

YOUNGSTOWN Phylis Porter said true justice for her daughter, who died of a heroin overdose, is for Jamal Vaughn’s children to be taken from him in the same way. Vaughn pleaded guilty to selling the drug that caused 22-year-old Jessica Porter’s death. Speaking Thursday at the sentencing of Vaughn, 28, of Oak Lane, Phylis Porter […]