Karen Brown

Journalist

Police Chief Asks Community To Help Pick Up Heroin Needles

Aired on NPR's All Things Considered, April 28, 2015
As the last of the snow melts in New England, an assortment of debris is emerging — including heroin syringes. It’s gotten so bad in one small town that the police chief asked civilians for help.
Patrick Pezzati searches yards in Turners Falls, Mass., for discarded heroin needles.