May
12
Violet Smith poses for a photo in her home in City Island. She lost her grandson Gary Gunzl in 2008 due to a heroin overdose.
With its tidy rows of homes and a fishing village atmosphere, City Island seems like one of the last places that would have a drug problem.
Yet there have been three fatal overdoses — and a near-fatal one — in the past year, and enough evidence of drug abuse to raise concern that the island of 4,500 people has a growing problem.
Gary Gunzl suffered one of those fatal overdoses at 18.
“It still hurts, but I would do anything to save just one other kid. Anything,” said his grandmother and legal guardian, Violet Smith.
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