By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach mayor measures the drop in overdoses by the sound of silence.
“We no longer hear the sirens blaring from rescue vehicles racing to the next overdose,” said Mayor Shelly Petrolia. “It used to happen several times a day.
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach appears to be shedding its image as a city full of rogue sober homes.
The city had “an explosion of flophouses” a few years ago, Chief Assistant State Attorney Al Johnson said at his office’s Sober Homes Task Force meeting
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By Jane Smith
The addiction crisis in Delray Beach has affected every city department within the past year. Police and fire-rescue workers have seen the most direct effe
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The city’s public safety departments will be able to hire 12 staffers to assist with the growing drug-overdose problems, under a proposed ta
By Jane Smith
Heroin overdoses and use of other illegal drugs have prompted Delray Beach fire-rescue and police leaders to ask for more officers and firefighter/paramedics.
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