A young woman lies in a field after a heroin overdose! Andrew Glazer's front-page article "Heroin: Pure, Cheaper, Deadlier" in the Dec. 1, Herald News is a depressing commentary that reminds us illegal drugs continue to rob young people from our neighborhoods and our futures.

What is our defense?

Drug abuse has been doing its dirty work long enough.

Politicians need to finally put their votes where their mouths are and consider the problem a matter of life and death.

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