Heroin Epidemic Grows to Smaller Cities
December 14, 2016
Huntsville, AL - December 14, 2016 - Heroin has spread beyond the city limits of large metropolitan areas. More than 18 heroin overdoses, one resulting in death, were recently reported by local officials in Walker County Alabama. The Daily Mountain Eagle newspaper in Jasper, AL published the report.
Jasper Police Chief J.C. Poe said his department responded to 22 overdose calls in a three-day span, including 11 on Friday. In one case, two individuals traveling in a vehicle with a 3-year-old overdosed at the same time and wrecked, according to the newspaper report. “We had three [overdoses] going on at one time that we were responding to,” Poe said. Many of the overdoses were linked to a single dealer. Poe said an investigation is ongoing and arrests are expected.