A Decade of Lost Opportunities to Stop a Heroin Epidemic Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Shawn Harnish, shown here when he was 22 and in jail, became the face of Boston's North Shore's heroin problem when he was featured in a series of newspaper stories about the issue in 2005. ( The Salem News ) Produced by Elizabeth Ross and Jillian Weinberger Produced by GBH, PRI and WNYC