Region's heroin epidemic to be featured in cable documentary

The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
www.enterprisenews.com
The A&E television network will broadcast a documentary on this region's battle with OxyContin and heroin addiction at 9 p.m. March 24.
Part of the network's "Intervention" series, which focuses on drug addiction, the show is called "Intervention in-depth: Heroin Hits Home" and features many of the people and issues profiled in The Enterprise's yearlong package of stories called "Wasted Youth."
The "Wasted Youth" stories, which were first published in March 2007, revealed that at least 144 people have died from opiate overdoses in southeastern Mass. since 2004. Many of the victims were under 25.
"Heroin Hits Home," which was filmed over the past two months, will also be broadcast on A&E at 1 a.m. on Tuesday, March 25.
For Comcast viewers, A&E is Channel 37 -- and Channel 837 for high definition viewing.
For more information on the show, go to aetv.com and click on "schedule."

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[Jjiigsaww]

well thats never going to happen ...even tho thats what a lot of people want ...

[Pootieify]

I have lost three friends due to heroin and the shit is not a joke to find your best friend dead in a chair....

[bwilli93]

NARCONON KILLS

[ukhawaja]

I agree with adryaa. If the Enterprise and community focus on the positives, invest in redevelopment of communities, and find ways to better educate the growing minority population in Brockton, then the city would be a better place to live. As a graduate of BHS, I've noticed its easy to generalize brockton as a ghetto. We need to get away from that and have effective programs.

[Jag240]

Brockton MA. City of Champs All Day!!!

[KozFromBeanTwn]

I live in Brockton and know a lot of young kids, 18 to 25 that do heroin.

Nick Pratt was a friend of mine before his addiction killed him.

[adryaaax3]

brockton has always seemed kind of ghetto? wanna know why, because newspapers and the media only show the negative aspects of the communities, not the overachievers. they make brockton seem like a place where you are likely to get into drugs. seriously, i used to live in boston, and i feel safer living in brockton than i ever felt in boston, and BHS offers more opportunity for education, sports and music. either way, dont judge a community and its people based on this, kay?

[vagisil4eva]

no offense to any of the people in this documentary, but i'm not really sure why A&E chose brockton as a city to profile -- it seemed to me that brockton was always kind of ghetto and therefore would always suffer from some kind of drug problem or another. it would've been more interesting to see a story on the upper middle class communities on the jersey shore (toms river is one) that are also plagued with a heroin epidemic.