Presentation On Heroin Problem To Be Held Thursday

Tullytown officials and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office will be providing an informational meeting on the heroin epidemic this week.

Assistant District Attorney Matt Weintraub will be leading the community discussion that will be held at Tullytown Borough Hall at 500 Main Street. The presentation will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday.

“Heroin has a stranglehold on our communities,” Weintraub said during a similar presentation last year. “What we’re experiencing nowadays is the heroin epidemic encroaching on a lot of different peoples lives.”

Bucks County officials and local police have stepped up their efforts over the past year to get heroin off the streets. The ramped up drug enforcement work began after a record number of overdoes across the county.

The assistant district attorney has previously said many heroin addicts start with prescription medications and move to “dirt cheap” heroin that is sold within the region.

Earlier this year, a series of anti-drug public service commercials produced by local students were released.