Santa Clarita Pushes Back Against Heroin

摘要

The City of Santa Clarita (pop. 216,350) is nestled between the San Fernando Valley to the south and the Grapevine to the north, less than 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles. In 2011, Santa Clarita mobilized a new, hard-hitting education and outreach campaign to address a crisis facing its young people - heroin. In less than a year, Santa Clarita had experienced more than 100 heroin-related arrests. Of the 400 people treated for overdoses (most of which were attributed to heroin) in a two-year span, 108 were younger than 24 years old.