AS HEROIN SCOURGE SPREADS, PARENTS, AUTHORITIES SEEK ANSWERS

There are some who believe we should sweep drug problems "among our own" under the rug. We here at EverythingCroton believe that the current heroin epidemic needs to be met head on. The Journal News has published an excellent article on this issue, interviewing parents, officials, etc. We encourage you to read it; please note that the link to the article will not last forever.

Perhaps this is also a good time to remind everyone about the excellent work the Croton Community Coalition does to promote healthy choices and prevent or reduce teen drug and alcohol abuse; to find out more, visit  http://www.crotoncoalition.org/crotoncoalition.org/Home.html

JOURNAL NEWS 1/7/13

AS HEROIN SCOURGE SPREADS, PARENTS, AUTHORITIES SEEK ANSWERS

Barbara Skiba sits at her dining room table in Croton Dec. 20, 2012 and holds a photo of her son Michael who died of a heroin overdose in August of 2011. He died at age 32 after a 14 year battle with heroin addiction. There were four heroin fatalities in Putnam and northern Westchester earlier this month. (Joe Larese/The Journal News) 

...Their names may be different but collectively they share a tragic and untimely end. Each of these young men lived in Westchester County and each of them died in recent years of heroin overdoses. The grim list of young adults succumbing to this deadly drug continues to soar in these northern suburbs of New York City as law enforcement and families struggle to search for a solution to this so-called epidemic. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE; link is only good for a few weeks: http://www.lohud.com/article/20130107/NEWS/301070098/As-heroin-scourge-spreads-parents-authorities-seek-answers?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|Frontpage