Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad

Guests:
Mac Venzon, Deputy Chief, Reno Police Department - Operations
Pundits:
Rew Goodenow, Attorney, Parsons, Behle & Latimer


"The typical age of a heroin user is between 19 and 23 years old and that’s really scary to me. "

- Reno Deputy Police Chief Mac Venzon, who agrees that prescription drugs are bigger gateway drugs than marijuana. That goes along with the opioid crisis that is racking the USA and causing the boom in heroin use once people can longer get or afford their opioid medicines.