Coming together is an excellent first step when it comes to dealing with the heroin epidemic across the US and Canada. As we’ve discussed and observed before heroin is no longer just an urban problem but is hitting small communities all across North America. Where there has been success in curbing the use of heroin we’ve seen community leaders, police, doctors and addiction treatment facilities working hand in hand in order to deal with the growing problem. Not a bad start, especially when these various representatives of small towns and cities begin to focus their efforts on prevention rather than tough enforcement and expensive initiatives to crack down on small time, drug related offenses. The small community of Lynn in the United States has seen heroin’s death toll rise significantly in the last year, and like other parts of the country they’ve begun to take appropriate action, but authorities and drug experts there believe that despite all their heroic measures to keep heroin out of their community, believe that the most realistic (and possibly the best) method to winning this war will be to get the parents as involved as possible in order to stop the problem at it’s source, which often lies in teens and young adults.… Read the rest »
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