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Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish (pictured) and Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson will host more than 70 high school students from across the county Friday for "Student Leadership Summit: Heroin Crisis and Our Future."

(Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson will host a student leadership summit on the local heroin crisis.

More than 70 students from high schools across the county will gather at the medical examiner's office Friday to discuss heroin's scourge and the dangers of prescription drug use.

cleveland.com will cover the summit live on Twitter beginning at noon. Follow @BlackwellTweets and use #HeroinCrisis to join the conversation.

A live stream of the event is embedded below.

Joining Friday's summit will be Aaron Marks, Cuyahoga County Opiate Task Force spokesman; Katie Boland, external affairs officer for the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County; Jaclyn Brandt, vice president of Robby's Voice; and Monica Robins, WKYC senior health correspondent.

Preliminary numbers released by the medical examiner's office show more than 180 people died from a heroin-related overdose in Cuyahoga County last year.