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Northwest Indiana Coroner On Rising Heroin Deaths: 'Certainly There’s A Crisis'

The coroner for a Northwest Indiana county says there’s a heroin crisis with deaths piling up at an alarming rate. WBEZ’s Michael Puente reports.

The coroner for a Northwest Indiana county says there’s a heroin crisis with deaths piling up at an alarming rate. WBEZ’s Michael Puente reports.

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