When Greg McNeil's son Sam died of a heroin overdose in 2015, after first becoming addicted to prescription pain pills, the father reinvented himself as an opioid activist.

HUDSON -- Greg McNeil competed with city, county and state officials for Ohio's federal stimulus money and wound up winning $168,323 to silence train horns at a crossing near his home.

Things would have been different, maybe, if Greg McNeil and his family knew then what they know now. His son, Sam, overdosed on heroin and died at the age of 28 in the fall of 2015. The McNeils ...

Greg McNeil is the founder and president of Cover2 Resources, a nonprofit that produces a podcast series about the people, places and things making a difference in the opioid epidemic.

SOUTHEASTERN N.C. -- Without the Volunteer Fire Department Fund grants, Fire Chief Greg McNeil said he doesn't know how the Penderlea Fire Department would function. Penderlea received more than ...