I just finished reading the last story of the Requiem for Heroin's Victims series. I am grateful to the families for finding the courage and strength to tell their stories. My family also suffers from this evil known as heroin. I hope the people who read these stories now understand these were not bad people. These were people who made one bad choice, and unfortunately with heroin one bad choice is all it takes.

Our local law enforcement agencies are doing what they can to battle this problem. The problem lies with the laws for heroin possession. The threshold for mandatory prison time currently is 15 grams, which amounts to 150 individuals tins. State Rep. Frank Mautino has been working hard for quite some time to change that with House Bill 2582. This Bill would lower the amount of heroin needed for prison time to make it easier to get these dealers off our streets and the addict into treatment.

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