A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn't wake her drug addict parents. Police found them dead at home.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her
parents.

Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday
morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus
ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she'd been
unable to rouse the adults in her house.

Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26,
and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to
police.

Also inside the home were three other children — 5, 3 and nine months old.

The children were unharmed but still taken to a hospital to be checked
out, then placed with the county's department of children, youth and
families.

The case cast a light on Allegheny County's epidemic of drug overdoses —
and their impact on families.

"There is an opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S., and Allegheny County is
not immune," county health officials said in a recent report.

There were 422 opioid-overdose deaths in Allegheny County last year,
according to the report — the largest death toll in county history. "And
the upward trend continues."

[Heroin overdoses aren’t accidents in this Pennsylvania county. They’re
now homicides.]

The report noted that Allegheny County, which includes McKeesport and the
city of Pittsburgh, "has experienced fatal overdose rates higher than
those seen throughout Pennsylvania and many other states" during the past
decade.

Illustrating their point, authorities told NBC affiliate WPXI that the
double-overdose at the 7-year-old's home was the second they had responded
to on that block in less than a day.

Speaking before the state legislature last week in Harrisburg, Gov. Tom
Wolf (D) told lawmakers that the opioid epidemic facing Pennsylvania is "a
public health crisis, the likes of which we have not before seen. Every
day, we lose 10 Pennsylvanians to the disease of addiction. This disease
does not have compassion, or show regard for status, gender, race, or
borders.

"It affects each and every Pennsylvanian, and threatens entire communities
throughout our commonwealth. The disease of addiction has taken thousands
of our friends and family members. In the past year alone we lost over
3,500 Pennsylvanians — a thousand more lives taken than the year before."

Wolf added that "addiction too often is an invisible problem. ... But in
Pennsylvania the problem is visible: In the lives lost. The families
broken. The communities shaken."

Nationwide, opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers killed
more than 28,000 people in 2014, more than any year on record, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least half of all
opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription drug, the CDC said, adding
that the number of overdose deaths involving opioids has nearly quadrupled
nationwide since 1999.

Behind the grim statistics are haunting scenes of overdose victims — and
the children affected by their parents' addictions.

Last month, a Family Dollar store employee in Massachusetts recorded a
toddler in pink pajamas crying and pulling on her unconscious mother, who
had overdosed and collapsed in the toy aisle.

The mother, who survived, was charged with child endangerment. Her
daughter was placed under the care of child protective services.

lso last month, authorities in the Ohio city of East Liverpool released a
photo of a man and a woman overdosing inside a vehicle that police said
had been moving erratically. The driver was barely conscious; the
passenger was turning blue. In the back: a 4-year-old boy restrained in a
car seat.

Someone at the scene snapped a photo of the gruesome scene and the city
posted it on its Facebook page “to show the other side of this horrible
drug.”

And a photo of a Birmingham police officer comforting a 1-month-old girl
in a tiny purple gingham dress raced around the Internet after her father
died of an apparent drug overdose and her mother was found near death.

The officer in the picture, Michelle Burton, told The Washington Post
about the moment that night that saddened her the most. The couple's 7-
year-old daughter asked the officer to sign her homework so she could turn
it in at school the next day.

"That broke my heart," Burton said. "She said, 'I did my work.' She pulled
it out and showed it to us. It was math homework, (like) 'Which number is
greater? Which number is odd or even?' … I told her, 'Sweetie, you
probably won’t have to go to school tomorrow. … But where you’re going is
going to have everything you need.'"

She added: "It was horrible. It was a very sad situation."

In Pennsylvania’s Lycoming County, coroner Charles Kiessling started
recording the manner-of-death classification in most drug overdose deaths
as homicides earlier this year.

A lot was already being done to curb heroin use in his community,
Kiessling told The Post — but using an accidental death classification for
an overdose felt like he was “sweeping the problem under the carpet, to a
certain extent.”

"They're not accidental deaths," Kiessling said. "They're homicides. Drug
dealers are murderers. They need to be prosecuted as murderers."

Homicide is defined as the death of an individual at the hands of another,
Kiessling said; when he thought about drug deaths, the victims were dying
at the hands of a dealer or supplier.

"You're killing people if you’re selling drugs," he said.

In March, at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit,
President Obama called opioid abuse and overdose deaths "heartbreaking,"
adding: "I think the public doesn't fully appreciate yet the scope of the
problem."


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