“We cannot arrest our way out of this problem.”
The statement made repeatedly by Berks District Attorney John T. Adams became the theme of a statewide report issued Tuesday on Pennsylvania’s heroin epidemic.
“It was riveting. It speaks, in my mind, to the reality that we really need to educate people about this problem and this crisis,” said Barry Denk, director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, which put out the 23-page report and hosted the hearings that included testimony from Adams. “John said it very succinctly.” – Read more at The Reading Eagle →