On Thursday, May 19, author Timothy Dumas will be leading a discussion titled, “Enter: Heroin – A discussion of the growing Heroin problem in Fairfield County.” Dumas will talk about the growing opioid use epidemic in Greenwich and how it often leads to heroin use over time. The discussion starts at 7 p.m. and takes place at Second Congregational Church, Greenwich, in the Chapel.
In the past three years, heroin deaths have nearly tripled in Connecticut. Last year there were 89 overdoses from opioids and heroin. According to the State Medical Examiner, last year the youngest heroin related death was a seventeen-year-old female from Cheshire and the youngest in Fairfield County was a nineteen-year-old from Greenwich.
While sharing intimate details from his article about local addicts he interviewed, Dumas will be able to communicate some potential options for families that might be hurt by this growing epidemic.
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