Families Against Narcotics teams with Berkley police to help addicts
By Jessica Dupnack and David Komer online producer
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Berkley police announce new partnership with Families Against Narcotics
The program gives police officers more resources to help with overdose calls. It started in Sterling Heights, then Downriver to Allen Park, now in Berkley.
The program gives police officers more resources to help on overdose calls. It started in Sterling Heights, then Downriver to Allen Park, now in Berkley.
The opioid crisis has publicly taken a backseat to the pandemic but the numbers are staggering. According to Families Against Narcotics, 2021 is expected to see a 40-percent increase in overdoses and a 20-percent increase of opioid-related deaths.
Community policing at its very best, Allen Park police bridging drug abuse services to those struggling
Published I’ve lost brothers, stepbrothers, been in hospitals with friends whose kids have died, said Chris Egan.
Those people died of addiction. While the struggle of substance abuse from opioids and narcotics continues to ravage communities, Egan wasn t just recanting the lives that have been lost. He was helping introduce a program that will prevent further people from dying. Everyone wants to help, he said. Downriver is a tight community and we look out for each other and this is just another way we do it.