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Pittsburgh's Federal Prosecutor Picked To Co-Chair National Heroin Task Force Amid Overdoses
By JOE MANDAK Associated Press April 17, 2015 - 11:43 am EDT
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's top federal prosecutor has been picked to co-chair a national Heroin Task Force even as the city and its suburbs respond to a rash of 12 overdoses that killed two people this week.

U.S. Attorney David Hickton will lead the group along with Mary Lou Leary, Deputy Director for State, Local, and Tribal Affairs at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is inviting federal agency experts from law enforcement, medicine, public health, and educational fields to join the group, which will meet for the first time April 28.

Hickton says a "holistic" approach to the heroin epidemic is needed, saying, "The problem of opioid abuse cannot be solved by prosecution alone. We can't incarcerate our way out of this problem."






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