Reporter's Notebook: Road to recovery

Stories don’t happen this way.I’d been in talks with Newark Police Chief Barry Connell for months, asking him to give me a ring if and when an addict would allow us to follow them through his department’s new NARI program.I thought that call would never come.The morning of August 30 I was sitting in our newsroom when it happened: a text.“You close to Newark? I have an intake that is ok with you following.”My photographer, Damon, and I got in a car and raced to Newar