Mr. Synan’s wide experience has allowed him to have a unique look into the opioid crisis. Mr. Synan is a United States Marine Corps veteran and a 29 year police veteran with the Newtown Police Department. For the last 14 years as Police Chief and as is a SWAT Team Leader veteran.
In 2014, after the last of an entire family died from addiction, the last two from heroin and fentanyl, Mr. Synan met with other members in Hamilton County and helped form the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition (now Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition) where he sits on the Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Interdiction. Mr. Synan coordinates law enforcement efforts to reduce supply and works with other members to help reduce demand.
Mr. Synan was asked to testify in Washington D.C.at a U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee giving testimony on synthetic opiates and the impact Fentanyl and Carfentinal has had on the country. Mr. Synan was a speaker with President Clinton and other distinguished panelist for the Clinton Foundation discussing the opioid crisis at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Synan’s career and work with the opioid epidemic has been recorded and archived in the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington D.C.
His work with the Coalition has been used in national and international publications and media outlets. Mr. Synan has spoken internationally on the opioid issue. Mr. Synan has been able to see all the ways that opioid epidemic touches lives and all the efforts it takes to help individuals, families struggling with addiction and the impact on communities; and has an in-depth understanding of the complexity of this issue.
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