JUNEAU -- Heroin's grip on Juneau can be felt in ways both plain and subtle.
A decade of rising abuse can be seen in syringes and foil squares dropped on dog-walking paths and in parking lots.
In grandparents raising toddlers their children are too addicted to care for.
In people shoplifting from Fred Meyer, stealing from their own families and writing bad checks to pay for drugs.
But it wasn't until people started dying that Juneau really started paying attention.
Since February, six people have died of heroin overdoses here.