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Summary : Community Outreach Experience

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Summary of Community Outreach Experience
Being able to effectively connect and work with individuals in a community is one of the most important steps in working towards solving any type of civic issue. Over the past few months I have researched and reported on my findings on the Heroin Epidemic that is plaguing New Hampshire communist. This civic issue is at the forefront of our states attention due to the fact that this problem is so wide spread, and has stunned communities in its ability to spread like wildfire, and leave no person untouched. Because this epidemic has had such a drastic and substantial toll on our state in such a short period of time it is important that we better understand where it comes from, who it effects, what it …show more content…

According to Deputy Chief France, Concord and many of the other local communities have seen a steady increase of heroin use, and overdoses in the city over the past two years. He explained that prior to this epidemic he could only recall several instances in which he and the department dealt with heroin overdoses. Additionally, I learned that although this issue has steadily increased, the Concord Fire Department has done a very good job of allocating the funds necessary for proper training and having the equipment and medications on hand in order to treat heroin users and more specifically overdose victims. This was something new because from my prior research I was under the impression that most city’s lacked the funding to address this issue, but from my firsthand account with Deputy Chief France, I learned that that is not always the case.
According to Deputy Chef France, I feels that the heroin epidemic is going to get much worse for all areas of New Hampshire before it gets better. Due to the steady flow of drugs into the state, and the relatively cheap price of heroin he feels it will take years to contain the drug’s effects on the local communities. Furthermore, I learned that the lifesaving drug, Narcan that is administered to overdose victims could be feeding the problem. According to Deputy Chief France they sometimes end up treating patients multiple

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