Poll: How to Curb Teen Heroin Use in the Suburbs?
The Illinois Crime Commission is proposing all first responders be given heroin overdose kits.
As fears over heroin use have diminished in recent years, the drug has become more potent, cheaper and no longer requires the user to inject it with a needle, according to the Chicago Tribune. Access has also become easy for those living in the suburbs and has claimed many teenage lives. Heroin is readily available along a corridor know as "Heroin Highway" — at Interstates 290 and 88. Chicago gang members work with the Mexican cartels to get the drug, according to the Tribune. To address this health concern, the Illinois Crime Commission proposed arming all first responders with heroin overdose rescue kits, which would contain a dose of Naloxone—an opiate overdose reversal drug—and a syringe, according to the Daily Herald. They promoted…
Rosecrance Health Network
11:28 am on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Pat Spangler and Chris Yadron of Rosecrance talked about “The Suburban Heroin Epidemic” with Susan Wieneck on “MIX Matters,” a public affairs show that airs on Chicago’s 101.9 FM the MIX. http://www.rosecrance.org/listen-rosecrance-experts-talk-heroin-suburbs/ more ›