We used our editorial page today to note the troubling new uptick in heroin-related deaths in the county.
Last week District Attorney Jack Whelan noted that the county had suffered nine heroin-related deaths in just the last week.
There is no area of the county that has gone unscarred in this new surge of heroin use.
It is affecting all areas of the county, men and women, and anywhere from teens to adults.
One of the most troubling aspects of the heroin scourge is statistics that show groups that traditionally were not included in this kind of drug use now falling into its clutches.
There is help on the way, however.
The federal government announced a new attack on the heroin problem. For the first time aligning law enforcement with health officials in a combined effort to tame the heroin-opioid epidemic.
Here's our editorial.
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