Task force calls for expanded services to save heroin addicts

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July 13, 2015

After nine months, a task force searching for solutions has recommended starting up a 24-hour hotline and an around-the-clock treatment center, as well as working with police to help treat addicts rather than locking them up...READ MORE.

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