When an epidemic is causing illness and deaths as the heroin and opioid crisis has done in New England and elsewhere in the nation, someone has to step forward to fight back against its growth.
And that was why U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha, District of Rhode Island, held one of four planned town meetings on the opioid crisis this week to help highlight National Heroin and Opiate Awareness Week.
Neronha brought together a panel of experts in the treatment of heroin and opiate addiction as well as federal, state and local officials doing their part to curb its impacts on the region’s young people, their families, and many others.