Conroy participates in community forum on drug abuse at Griffin Hospital in Derby

State Rep. Theresa Conroy, D-Seymour, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, speaks Tuesday at a community forum about opioid, heroin, and prescription drug abuse at Griffin Hospital in Derby. Health officials have said the abuse of opioids has reached epidemic levels. Conroy said 720 Connecticut residents died of drug overdoses in 2015, up from 86 overdoses just three years earlier.


Stay tuned for a story about the forum in the next issue of The Valley Voice newsletter.