To save lives, Kenosha County must start conversations on substance abuse, according to community leaders who took part in a public outreach program Tuesday evening.

For far too many area residents, frank talk about substance abuse — especially opioids — is still taboo, said Guida Brown, executive director of the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse.

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