Crime Lab, Health Lab 'It's your Lucky Day': CPD Offers Heroin Addicts a 2nd Chance

Chicago Sun-Times / January 22, 2017
By Frank Main

A weathered man who looked far older than his 54 years sat in a folding chair in his blue hooded sweatshirt while he retied the laces on his gym shoes.

Two women in winter jackets — one wearing an electronic-monitoring bracelet — sat across the room fidgeting.

They were heroin addicts arrested in a West Side drug-diversion program launched by the Chicago Police Department in early 2016. Other cities across the country have been experimenting with similar programs as heroin-related deaths have skyrocketed, including in Chicago.

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22 January 2017