The Class Of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything’ • Discoverology

The Class Of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything’

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The Minford High School Class of 2000, in rural Minford, Ohio, began its freshman year as a typical class. Over the next decade, Scioto County would become ground zero in the state’s fight against opioids. It would lead Ohio with its rates of fatal drug overdoses, drug-related incarcerations and babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

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