Attorney General Mike DeWine’s new Heroin Unit provides Ohio communities with law enforcement, legal, and outreach assistance to combat the state’s escalating opiate problem.
“Despite major efforts to fight the heroin epidemic on the state, local, and national level, the problem is not going away, and people are continuing to die,” he said. “We have to fight this at the grassroots level — community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood. We have to get mad and say, ‘Enough is enough.’”
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The Heroin Unit will draw from new and existing resources, including:
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Investigative and laboratory personnel and services from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation
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Staff and resources from the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission
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Special Prosecutions Section
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Drug Abuse Awareness Outreach staff
“These new efforts will not be the full solution to Ohio’s heroin problem. But by providing what services we can, we hope to save lives and prevent addiction,” Attorney General DeWine said.