“We’ve been at this for, now, four or five years, and the overdose numbers continue to go up,” he added. It is a complex crisis, with roots in years of overprescription and abuse of opioid pills, which hooked people around the nation, Mr. Rosenberg said. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. On the streets, 17,000 of the city’s 23,000 patrol officers have been trained in the use of naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses. In Vermont, a constant flow of illegal drugs arrives in cars driven from New York, Chief del Pozo and his investigators said.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 09:00 UTC