Teamwork: Law enforcement, social workers join to combat opiate crisis

Members of a group known as SubStat discuss the most pressing opiate-related cases in the Burlington area. Photo by Morgan True/VTDigger
BURLINGTON — With Vermont on pace in 2017 to break last year’s record number of opiate overdose deaths, a group of police, social workers and others in Chittenden County is gathering to foster a more coordinated approach to the problem.
The effort comes as preliminary figures published this month by the state Health Department show that in the