A great deal of media attention of late has been on the reported rise in heroin overdoses across Massachusetts. In February, police in Lawrence, Methuen and Haverill conducted sweeping heroin-related arrests, and there have also been crackdowns on dealers and addicts in Fall River, Lynn and Boston.
But the fallout from heroin-related crimes and addiction is also being felt in more affluent cities and towns. And that fallout is in the form of increased house break-ins and burglaries in Belmont, Cambridge, and other middle class areas.