Legislative News: ULSTER COUNTY LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY: HEROIN AND OPIOID OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC
“Heroin is becoming main stream. It is taking lives unnecessarily, ruining families and leaving individuals hooked on it for life, according to District Attorney D. Holley Carnright. These comments were made at a stakeholder chat on the growing epidemic of heroin and opioid use and overdoses in Ulster County. Legislative Chairman John Parete recently hosted this first of a series of chats to bring to light the insidiousness of the disease.