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Heroin and New Canaan, Part 2 of 3: Parenting

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Editor’s Note: This is the middle installment of a three-part series. The other two parts can be found here:

Heroin and New Canaan, Part 1 of 3: Tracing and Defining a Problem
Heroin and New Canaan, Part 3 of 3: ‘Reach Out to a Person’

 

Nancy Welch moved to New Canaan 10 years ago with her husband and three kids. With one child now at each level in New Canaan Public Schools, Welch said she has become increasingly concerned about what officials are calling a rise in recent years of heroin’s availability and use in New Canaan and the region. “My concern would be that one dose of it can kill you,” Welch told NewCanaanite.com when asked for her thoughts on the drug’s prevalence here. “I think a lot of parents don’t know about it,” she added.