Article updated: 2/8/2013 2:26 PM

Task force would address heroin “epidemic” in suburbs, state

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Chelsea Laliberte, who founded the heroin awareness effort Live4Lali in memory of her brother Alex, said the state needs to be involved in funding education programs aimed at stopping drug use among young people.

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A suburban lawmaker has proposed legislation that could help alleviate the heroin problem both in the suburbs and across the state. The proposal, written by State Rep. Sam Yingling, a Round Lake Beach Democrat, would form a bipartisan Young Adults Heroin Use Task Force to identify how the state can help. The task force will be given until the end of June 2014 to conduct a study of heroin use problems in Illinois high schools and suggest programs they can use to address the problem.

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