NewCanaanite.com (https://newcanaanite.com/page/2?s=heroin)
Turn on the TV or read the news, and you are likely to hear about the nation’s current opioid crisis.
April 8, 2016 | https://newcanaanite.com/new-canaan-event/it-starts-in-your-medicine-cabinet-protecting-our-families-from-the-opioidheroin-epidemicNew Canaan Police K 9 Apollo at NCHS
The New Canaan Police Department’s newly deployed K-9 unit swept through New Canaan High School’s hallways Wednesday morning, sniffing lockers during a demonstration and training exercise that could yield a more regular effort to use the drug-sniffing dog to combat substance abuse among local youth.
In the past 18 to 24 months, five or six young people from New Canaan overdosed and died from heroin, says Town Council Member E. Roger Williams.
The deaths occurred almost entirely outside of town, after the young people had entered their 20s and had moved to places like Wilton, Norwalk and Stamford, Williams said — but he said the introduction into substance abuse tended to happen when the young people were teenagers growing up in this town.
August 19, 2015 | https://newcanaanite.com/town-council-member-heroin-has-killed-six-young-people-from-new-canaan-30672Police say they arrested a 24-year-old River Street woman on felony drug charges after she twice sold heroin to an undercover police officer.
March 16, 2015 | https://newcanaanite.com/new-canaan-24-arrested-after-twice-selling-heroin-to-undercover-officer-23938Police on Friday night arrested two Norwalk men, ages 24 and 25, after finding heroin and snorting gear in their car at a DUI checkpoint.
December 22, 2014 | https://newcanaanite.com/dui-checkpoint-in-new-canaan-yields-heroin-bust-pot-and-dui-arrests-19352