Cheap Heroin Linked to Rise in New Providence Crimes

If you think heroin addiction isn't a problem in New Providence, guess again.

That's what attendees found out at a drug abuse forum Monday night that featured a road map video, "Pills to Heroin," that showed how teens start with stealing their parents' prescription medicine and move on to harder substances, according to NJ.com.

Heroin in New Jersey is cheap, Deputy Police Chief Scott Torre was quoted as saying, and the use of it causes an overdose death somewhere in the county every week, Union County Prosecutor Grace Park claimed in the NJ.com article. The rise in heroin use has caused a similar hike in burglaries, jewelry, and cash thefts.

The forum was put together by Torre of the New Providence Police Department and the New Providence Alliance to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse.