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Hampshire Hope: DART takes national stage Published: 5/3/2021 4:21:49 PM A snippet of video included in our Hampshire HOPE presentation at the 2021 RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit drove our point home better than any PowerPoint ever could. Seated at a table was Adam Van Buskirk, a founding officer in the Northampton Police Department’s post-overdose response team known as DART, listening to a cellphone message he received from a woman he had worked with as a DART officer. “I’ll never forget you bringing me to detox,” the caller said. She let Van Buskirk know that she had since moved to the Boston area, gotten a job and was doing just fine. Van Buskirk is now a detective on the Northampton force and no longer part of the DART team, but the impact he’s had during his time as a DART officer reverberates to this day. ....