The senseless heroin-overdose deaths, shortly before Easter, of two men outside an Erie, Pennsylvania, grocery store (a third person, a woman, survived after being administered Narcan) should be a clarion call for action to rescue a community in crisis and a democracy on the edge of an abyss, writes guest columnist Jeff Bloodworth, a fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based Truman National Security Project and a professor of American political history at Gannon University in Erie.