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The Hamilton County Heroin Coalition holds one of their regular meetings in August at the Hamilton Administration Building in downtown Cincinnati. Tom Synan, the police chief of the Village of Newtown, is one of the founders of the coalition, which started with a few people in March of 2015 and has grown to include numerous people from all areas battling the opioid epidemic. (Photo: Liz Dufour/The Enquirer)

You look at Tom Synan and see a small man with a bit of mischief in his eyes. The police chief for a little Ohio village called Newtown wears the uniform though a lot of chiefs have abandoned such dress in favor of shirt, tie and jacket. He cruises the streets as a patrol cop when he gets…