I have been writing much lately about heroin with the backdrop of Hartford’s Park Street which is one of many epicenters of the current heroin epidemic. Today, I am going to briefly change the backgrounds. Instead of Park Street with its back drop of bakeries, bodegas, Spanish restaurants, and young tattooed men, with crooked baseball…
Month: September 2016
Dead Man
I mentioned that we had a patient this week who said she stayed away from the white powdered heroin because of her fear of Fentanyl. Powdered Fentanyl is white and very hard to distinguish visually from white powdered heroin. A number of years ago drug dealers started enhancing their heroin with Fentanyl. Fentanyl is stronger…
Park Street
I only went to one heroin overdose this week and one PCP overdose. The heroin overdose was on Park Street in the South end and the PCP was on Capen in the north end. You get get called for an overdose on Park Street and it is pretty much always heroin. You get called for…