Heroin: Not resting on their laurels

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Heroin: Not resting on their laurels</h1>
                <h2><p>King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray are asking a task force to look at ways to combat heroin- and opiate-use epidemics in the region. The task force includes the county's public health officer, Dr. Jeff Duchin, and Dr. Caleb Banta-Green, an epidemiologist at the</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Jan 12, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray are asking a task force to look at ways to combat heroin- and opiate-use epidemics in the region. The task force includes the county's public health officer, Dr. Jeff Duchin, and Dr. Caleb Banta-Green, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. As a <a href="http://crosscut.com/2016/03/cities-across-u-s-considering-seattles-approach-to-heroin/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Crosscut story noted </a>earlier today, people around the country have been looking to the local Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program as a model for helping people facing addiction to heroin and opiates. A <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Frontline report</a> for PBS gave significant attention to the LEAD program's innovative approaches.</p>
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King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray are asking a task force to look at ways to combat heroin- and opiate-use epidemics in the region. The task force includes the county's public health officer, Dr. Jeff Duchin, and Dr. Caleb Banta-Green, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. As a Crosscut story noted earlier today, people around the country have been looking to the local Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program as a model for helping people facing addiction to heroin and opiates. A Frontline report for PBS gave significant attention to the LEAD program's innovative approaches.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi