Paul Cleveland from the Fairfax County Police Department’s Office of Organized Crime & Narcotics and Peggy Cook, Director of Residential Treatment Services for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board discussed the dangers and prevalence of heroin and opiate use and addiction facing our community in an online chat on Monday, November 24. The number of overdoses has risen dramatically in 2014; the total number is 66 in Fairfax County so far. Additionally, there have been 17 deaths related to heroin so far. (This compares to 41 overdoses and 9 deaths for the same date in 2014.) Learn more about the issue, and the resources available via the online chat transcript:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/askfairfax/archive/ArchiveDiscussion.aspx?roomid=99
