CLEVELAND, Ohio — Karen Warberg had already cycled through three different residential treatment programs across two states trying to break her addiction when her daughter found her unconscious in their bathroom last summer. She’d overdosed on heroin.

“I knew I had to change something,” Warberg recalls of the moment.

Her doctor recommended she try the Hitchcock Center for Women, Cuyahoga County’s only residential addiction treatment program devoted exclusively to women and their children. She completed the program and stabilized enough to return home but found old habits were harder to avoid there, so she returned to Hitchcock’s recovery house for more support.

Today, Warberg is 14 months sober and preparing to move into the permanent housing wing of Hitchcock’s brand-new $23 million fa

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