The Barberton woman, who lived at a home where paramedics responded to as many as 18 drug overdoses in a two-year time span, has died, a Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office spokesman said Monday.
On Saturday, Barberton Police were called to a home in the 300 block of 6th Street NW to find Kathryn Morrison-Young unresponsive. She was pronounced dead in a second-floor bedroom. Police also found a cut straw, unknown white powder and her cell phone, an incident report said.
Morrison-Young, 36, lived in the 100 block of Norwood St. in a home owned by her mother. Police records showed at least 18 calls for service to that address in the last two years for suspected overdoses.
In January, a man died at that address and Morrison-Young was arrested after another person overdosed just days later.
“Someone overdosed and died over there and then two days later they’re pulling a woman out of the house unconscious, throwing her in the passenger seat of a car,” a neighbor told News 5.
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When reached Monday, Morrison-Young’s stepfather Dennis Antal said he knew of her addiction, but didn’t know she was still using.
“We thought she was getting help and we believed her when she said she was,” Antal said. “You don’t want to think your child is actually hooked on drugs, but there were signs and I guess we ignored them.”
Antal took custody of Morrison-Young’s two teenage children and tried to get her in a rehab program, but said they had little success because so many programs were full.
Ohio is ground zero for the opioid crisis. Summit County records show there were at least 300 drug-related deaths in 2016, shattering previous records.
