Heroin addiction was the topic of conversation in Will County Saturday, where law enforcement officials say it has become a national epidemic.
Heroin is second to only alcohol in Illinois where people seek treatment and rehabilitation from. Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow spoke at the meeting at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights.
Glasgow said the party scene in his area was negatively affecting young people’s ideas about the drug.
“Kids in Will County at the party scene say if you’re tying off and shooting then you’re an addict, but if you’re snorting and you’re smoking you’re just partying,” he said. “It’s amazing how peer pressure can create a new moral code or moral standard and that’s what we’re faced with.”
Between 2007 and 2011, heroin overdose deaths increased by 50% in McHenry county. According to Glasgow, the number of heroin deaths in Will County in 2012 jumped to 53, nearly double than the year before.
3 Comments to “Will County officials hold summit on heroin ‘epidemic’”
March 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM
One word…Ibogaine.
March 10, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Who has the time and money for these drugs? I’m going to spend my free time sober, on my Harley, with a smile on my face.
March 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM
As the mother of a heroin addict I know all to well the pain and problems of this addiction it not only destroys the addict but , it also destroys the addicts family as well.. It bring nothing but pain and destruction into the lives of the addict and the addicts family. It's a mothers nightmare !!!!!!!!!.