Heroin has been found in two Southwestern Nova Scotia counties for the first time in nine years.
This according to a Nova Scotia frontline drug report from the Dept. of Health and Wellness presented this year which states the drug has turned up in police seized powder in both Lunenburg and Yarmouth County this year.
The report notes this is the first time the drug has popped up in these areas since they began tracking it in 2011.
However, local law enforcement and addiction workers in Lunenburg County say they haven’t seen the drug as of yet.
Bridgewater Police deputy chief Danny MacPhee said he doesn’t recall seeing or seizing the drug within the last year, but hearing non-pharmaceutical opioids are re-entering communities doesn’t come as surprising to him.