Peter Sullivan of The Hill reports that
The White House on Monday announced a new strategy to fight heroin that emphasizes the public-health aspects of the epidemic and pairs medical experts with law enforcement officials.
As part of this new strategy there will be
… $2.5 million to create five pairs of regional coordinators across 15 northeastern states, an area where the heroin epidemic has hit particularly hard.
Something that has been in the news for a while now. As least as far back was this report on Vermont’s heroin epidemic.
About one year after that story was published, the governor of Vermont devoted his entire opening address to the state’s legislature to the problem of heroin and a strategy for fighting the problem of addiction.
The Feds are now in on the campaign against heroin, a problem that doesn’t seem likely to go away soon.
