The Northfield Police Department and Rice County Drug Task Force made a series of arrests November 1st and 2nd after investigations lasting 14 months.  The Northfield News chronicled these events here.    Some of the arrests were centered around Greenvale Place Apartments.  A Randolph area man was arrested in the heroin related death of a Northfield man.  The Northfield News updated these stories here.

Kathy Sandberg of the Rice County Chemical Health Coalition wrote a Guest Column for the Northfield News titled “More can be done about heroin problem”.

There is a new group of heroin users in the Northfield area, according to this article in the Northfield News written by Suzanne Rook.   Rook interviewed Dr. Charles Reznikoff from the Northfield Hospital’s Opiate Agonist Clinic.

Mayor’s Task Force member,  Dr. Kristine Matson conducted a study titled  “A Qualitative Study of Young Adult Heroin Addiction”.   Northfield News’ writer, Suzanne Rook,  discussed Matson’s study and wrote about the numbers of people treated at Northfield’s Opiate Addiction Clinic in this article.

Blogger Griff WIgley from Locallygrownnorthfield.org provided links to chemical abuse related stories and blogs from the Northfield News and Locally Grown:

http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/4108/

A meeting sponsored by the Northfield Public Schools and other community groups was held at the middle school:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=24623

http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/2629/

Blogger Griff Wigley updated Northfield’s heroin story linking to the Carletonian and opinion pieces from a local grandfather and a local minister:

http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/2366/

The Key held a second drug abuse related community at the armory:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=20693

The Northfield City Council and School Board held a meeting with acting Police Chief Roger Schroeder to react to and discuss concerns raised in Chief Smith’s press conference:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=25454

Northfield’s Union of Youth (The Key) held a meeting to discuss Northfield’s drug abuse issues:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=20490

Chief Smith discusses his tactics for dealing with Northfield’s drug abuse problems:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=20418