Articles About drug use

• Free Narcan, no questions asked

  By Reilly DixonOctober 3, 2023

  

  In partnership with Greene County Public Health, or GCPH, Yellow Springs Pharmacy is now offering free doses of naloxone.

• Yellow Springs middle and high school student drug use assessed

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMarch 31, 2016

  

  On Monday, Yellow Springs students filled out the latest version of the Dayton Area Drug Survey, a bi-annual survey designed to collect data on the substance use habits of area students.

• A native son, talented, caring, addicted

  By Megan BachmanJune 6, 2013

  While Oliver Simons, the local man who police say is behind a string of nine burglaries in the village this year, is now locked up at the Greene County Jail, back in town friends, family, victims and community members are left dealing with the aftershock of his alleged crimes.

• Schools offer drug counseling

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 27, 2012

  At its meeting on Dec. 13, the Yellow Springs school board agreed to contract with Greene County’s TCN Behavioral Health Services for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for students in the school.

• Task force targets drugs

  By Lauren HeatonMay 17, 2012

  Last year two drug-related arrests in a single incident were made in Yellow Springs by the ACE Task Force, the Greene County agency that fights drug-related crimes at a multijurisdictional level.

• Community response to Dayton Daily News article—YS ‘drug culture’ overstated, some say

  By Lauren HeatonJune 12, 2008

  Ask an adult who was raised in Yellow Springs and returned here to live what the village is about, and many will say it is a safe, progressive community that accepts people for who they are.