Article updated: 5/10/2011 2:25 PM

Family, Hinsdale center take on heroin

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Roger and Nadeane Hruby and their daughter Brenda Hruby Giesel discuss formation of a landmark heroin prevention program. The Hruby family made a $340,000 gift to help fund the project.

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Brenda Hruby Giesel talks about the new program in memory of her nephew who died from a heroin overdose.

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Reed Hruby with his grandmother Nadeane Hruby, who made the new heroin project possible with a sizable donation.

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Thanks to a $340,000 gift from a Burr Ridge family, the Robert Crown Center for Health Education is developing a program to stop the growing trend of heroin use and death across the Chicago area.

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