White House Allocates More Money To Fight Heroin Epidemic

3:43pm August 17, 2015

In this July 10, 2015, photo, volunteer Ruth Cote, facing, hugs a woman inside the police station in Gloucester, Mass., who has voluntarily come to the police for help kicking her heroin addiction. Gloucester is taking a novel approach to the war on drugs

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The Obama administration today directed $13.4 million to regional drug control agencies known as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA), including $2.5 million for what the White House is calling “an unprecedented partnership” between five regional HIDTA programs in the Northeast.

That smaller pot of money would be used to hire new police officers, as well as public health officials who would work together across state lines to identify targets and see where heroin is coming from.

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Timothy Cameron, sheriff in St. Mary’s County, Maryland and a member of the Maryland’s Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force. He tweets @SheriffCameron.

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