In Erie County, New York, which is upstate and near Niagara Falls, known as Western New York, known as the home to salt-of-the-earth Americans, the place where I live, 7 residents have overdosed on heroin spiked with fentanyl or carphetanyl and died in the last 24 hours. The six men and one woman were all around 32 years of age. The figures for all of Erie County shocked me: 302 opiate-related overdoses in 2016. The declining population is about 920,000. Auto crashes caused 60 deaths. There are about 108 suicides a year. Some overdoses may be from prescribed drugs. Some … Continue reading Legalize Heroin