New Study Points to Chicago’s West Side as the Region’s Epicenter for Heroin Hospitalizations and Arrests

by Press on September 1, 2016

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CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. While widespread heroin use in Chicago’s suburbs has been well documented, people are more likely to suffer negative health and criminal justice impacts due to heroin on Chicago’s West Side than in any other part of the city or the Chicagoland region.