Warren Mayor Jim Fouts will be the featured speaker at a town hall meeting on prescription drug and opioid abuse. The Town Hall on Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse will be held at Warren City Hall first floor conference room and will on commence at 7 p.m.
Mayor Jim Fouts has been at the forefront of the fight against prescription drug and opioid abuse both in the City of Warren and Statewide, as well as at the forefront of many other issues of concern to the residents of Warren.
“This is a growing problem in the Metro area,” said Mayor Jim Fouts, citing 249 overdoses in Macomb County in 2014, compared to 234 in 2013, a 7% spike in overdoses.
Mayor James Fouts said that nearly half of young people who use heroin surveyed in three studies reported abusing prescription opioids before starting to use heroin. “Some take up heroin because it is cheaper and easier than obtaining drugs,” said Mayor Jim Fouts in statement.
An additional speaker will be 37th District Court Judge Matthew Sabaugh, who heads Macomb County’s 37th District treatment court.
The Town Hall on Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse is sponsored by Greater Macomb Project “The Voice of Recovery”, Care of Southeastern Michigan, Partnership For Success, Warren-Center Line Prevention Coalition, Macomb County Office of Substance Abuse.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts Initiates Elderly Task Force
At the direction of the Mayor of the City of Warren, Jim R. Fouts, the Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green and the Warren Police Department, a program has been offered surrounding police agencies that proposes a cooperative law enforcement effort among agencies. This task force will work to aggressively identify, arrest, and prosecute those responsible for these terrible crimes against the senior Warren residents. This will include highly trained officers from Warren, Center Line, Roseville, Sterling Heights, and the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department. There has been a significant spike in senior crimes in the metro area including the City of Warren and other cities. These predators approach homes of elderly residents and try to con them into paying for home repair services or pose as utility company employees to take care of services related to utility issues. Many seniors have been taken for huge sums of money including a 93 year old woman who was bilked out of $7000.
The Task Force has already produced results. A man wanted in connection with a series of a violent robberies targeting senior citizens in Warren and Center Line has been arraigned on multiple charges. In another instance, the newly formed task force which targets crimes against senior citizens assisted in the arrest of two people accused of scamming an elderly Clinton Township man.
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