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Title: Massachusetts town takes new approach to opiate addiction
Source: Christian Scientist Monitor
URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Up ... w-approach-to-opiate-addiction
Published: May 5, 2015
Author: Alexander LaCasse
Post Date: 2015-05-27 07:35:01 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1731
Comments: 18

A prisoner in ankle chains appears before Judge David A.Tapp as he is evaluated for his willingness to participate in the Supervision Motivation Accountable Responsibility and Treatment program, also known as SMART probation at the Pulaski County Courthouse in Somerset, Ky. The rise heroin addictions nationwide has spurred some localities like the Gloucester, Mass. Police Department to rethink how they combat the proliferation of heroin in their communities. The police department announced Monday that it would no longer arrest addicts who voluntarily turned themselves in to police who would then help direct them to help.

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Beginning June 1, opiate addicts who show up at the Gloucester, Mass., police station with their drugs will not be charged with a crime.

"Instead," writes Police Chief Leonard Campanello in a Facebook post, "we will walk them through the system toward detox and recovery. We will assign them an 'angel' who will be their guide through the process. Not in hours or days, but on the spot."

Two local hospitals have agreed to "fast track" those addicted to heroin or other opiates who walk in to the station. Additionally, Narcan, a drug used to treat overdoses, will be made available for little or no money at at least one drug store. For those without health insurance, the police will cover the bill, using funds seized from drug dealers during investigations.

Opiate addiction has become a major challenge for Gloucester, a city of 30,000. According to the Boston Globe, three fatal overdoses have been reported in the city so far this year. Last year, more than 1,000 people in Massachusetts died from heroin, opiates, or other opioids, reports the Boston Globe. (For comparison, there were 326 motor vehicle fatalities in Massachusetts 2013.)

The problem extends well beyond Massachusetts, as The Christian Science Monitor's Kristina Lindborg reported in her March 2014 cover story, datelined in nearby Newburyport, Mass.

From Los Angeles to Long Island, Chicago to New Orleans, parents and police are struggling with a rise in heroin use in suburban neighborhoods more often concerned with SAT scores and the length of lines at Starbucks.

The rise is being driven by a large supply of cheap heroin in purer concentrations that can be inhaled or smoked, which often removes the stigma associated with injecting it with a needle. But much of the increase among suburban teens, as well as a growing number of adults, has also coincided with a sharp rise in the use of prescription painkiller pills, which medical experts say are essentially identical to heroin. These painkillers, or opioids, are prescribed for things such as sports injuries, dental procedures, or chronic back pain. Yet in a disturbing number of cases, experts say, they are leading to overdependence and often to addiction to the pills themselves, which can then lead to heroin use.

"The perception [used to be] that heroin was mostly an urban problem," Anthony Pettigrew, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration based in New England, told Ms. Lindborg. "But now there are no borders, there are no demographic or geographic areas ... that are immune from heroin."

Gloucester isn't the first city in the United States to experiment with a "treatment, not jail" approach to addiction. Last month, the state's attorney for Cook County said that the county would steer many nonviolent felony drug cases in the Chicago area to treatment instead of to prison. Seattle, Wash., launched a similar program in 2011. 

Chief Campanello, for his part, says that he will go to Washington, DC to meet with lawmakers and discuss his cities approach. In his Facebook post, he writes:

I am asking for your help. Like this post, send it to everyone you can think of and ask them to do the same. Speak your comments. Create strength in numbers. I will bring it with me to show how many voters are concerned about this issue. Lives are literally at stake.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

European experience is that this sort of thing works far better than punishment.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-05-27   7:45:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1) (Edited)

Opiate addiction has become a major challenge for Gloucester, a city of 30,000. According to the Boston Globe, three fatal overdoses have been reported in the city so far this year. Last year, more than 1,000 people in Massachusetts died from heroin, opiates, or other opioids, reports the Boston Globe. (For comparison, there were 326 motor vehicle fatalities in Massachusetts 2013.)

Opiate addictions are the new drug epidemics. I could have reported this to you all 3 years ago, if I was still allowed to post.

So what did my community do? The state passed a law to give drug addicts free needles. As many as 400 at a time. Then drug courts sprung up everywhere... sentencing to costly rehab and costly probation, all FREE to the drug addled turd.

I suppose they just accidentally took an OxyCodone pill, crushed it, cooked it down on a spoon with purified water, waited until it cools, sucked up into a free needle through a piece of cotton... tie your arm off, locate a vein and push that nasty fucking shit into your bloodstream... AND I'M TO FEEL SORRY FOR THEM? I'm suppose to fund their "nice" European way of dealing with them?

This goes right along with the liberal political idiolgy of "don't address blame"... spread that shit around to tax and fund compassion.

Next thing we'll hear is some libtard will sponsor a law funding training and drugs to be administered by cops to help save an overdosed life... oh wait, that's already happening.

Let's recap. The drug lovers don't want to

ARREST drug users

Incarcerate drug users

Punish drug addicts

Be mean to drug addicts

And we should...

Make drugs all legal and easy to get

Safer to use

And like in Colorado... a little more powerful.

And then ask me to fund their servitude... all while Deckard spreads his misinfo propaganda that people are unfairly filling our prisons... just so he can sell you on the libtard idea of this shit.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-27   8:33:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: GrandIsland (#2) (Edited)

ARREST drug users

Incarcerate drug users

Punish drug addicts

None of that is working.

Drug use has remained the same despite your war on drugs.

It's time to look for options that will actually solve the problem.

"Just say no" and no-knock SWAT raids have worked so well for the past 40 years why would anyone dare to change such an effective policy? Heaven forbid that we get addicts off of drugs.

The reason you don't like it is because it would bring ruin to the War on Drugs and the private prison industry.

It would also end so many policing activities that the sheer boredom would cause many badged thugs to find productive work instead of leeching off the taxpayers and rousting motorists for easy cash.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-05-27   8:46:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: GrandIsland (#2)

And then ask me to fund their servitude...

From the article :

Two local hospitals have agreed to "fast track" those addicted to heroin or other opiates who walk in to the station. Additionally, Narcan, a drug used to treat overdoses, will be made available for little or no money at at least one drug store.

For those without health insurance, the police will cover the bill, using funds seized from drug dealers during investigations.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-05-27   9:00:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Deckard (#3) (Edited)

"Drug use has remained the same despite your war on drugs."

And it will stay the same unless we:

ARREST drug users
Incarcerate drug users
Punish drug addicts

But you refuse to do that. You'd rather sit there and say, "Drug use has remained the same".

misterwhite  posted on  2015-05-27   10:22:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Deckard (#3)

"It's time to look for options that will actually solve the problem."

Given that you define the problem as too many people going to jail for doing drugs, I'm not interested in looking for options that will solve THAT problem.

If the problem is too many people using drugs, I doubt the solution is to legalize all drugs.

I bet if we re-criminalized drugs, got rid of medical marijuana, and enforced the existing laws -- as written -- drug use would drop.

Isn't that what you want?

misterwhite  posted on  2015-05-27   10:32:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: misterwhite (#6) (Edited)

If the problem is too many people using drugs, I doubt the solution is to legalize all

Bingo...

And when they are incarcerated vs. drug court and alternatives to incarceration, they ARENT VICTIMIZING my peers and recommitting more drug offenses WHILE INCARCERATED. So in that respect, incarceration works.

I wish I had a dollar for every drug addled shitbag that I've arrested, that received no jail time through libtard pussy-weak and compassionate alternatives to incarceration, THAT COMITTED A LIKE DRUG OFFENSE WITHIN A YEAR OF THE LAST ARREST.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-27   10:37:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: misterwhite (#5)

ARREST drug users Incarcerate drug users Punish drug addicts

You really need to go hard core on the drug dealers. Singapore looks at it as "they sow death, they reap death." Drug dealers should face the death penalty.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2015-05-27   10:46:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: nativist nationalist (#8)

Drug dealers should face the death penalty.

It would depend on what they were selling and how much.

I don't think marijuanna dealers should face execution.

Big heroin dealers I could possible go along with that. Not that they care what my opinion is.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-05-27   11:00:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: GrandIsland (#7) (Edited)

I wish I had a dollar for every drug addled shitbag that I've arrested, that relieved no jail time through libtard pussy-weak and compassionate alternatives to incarceration, THAT COMITTED A LIKE DRUG OFFENSE WITHIN A YEAR OF THE LAST ARREST.

You don't seem to understand that this proposed program is for those who turn themselves in and want help to free them from addiction.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-05-27   11:01:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Deckard (#0)

Massachusetts town takes new approach to opiate addiction

I stopped reading here.

I just don’t have time right now to read yet another Northeastern Left Wing bleeding heart putatively-extremely liberal policy, which I easily expect this to be.

I will try to get back to you on this when I can, Deckard.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-05-27   11:14:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: A K A Stone (#9)

It would depend on what they were selling and how much.

I think the drugs that cause a public health problem. Drugs have really exacerbated mental illness, just think of musicians like Syd Barrett and Jim Gordon that had promising careers cut short by drug induced mental illness. As a rule businesses should not be allowed to externalize costs, the costs imposed by that industry should be borne by that industry, for example companies that hire illegal aliens and impose welfare and crime costs on America should be taxed to pay for it.

In the case of drugs I don't think it would be possible, the costs imposed on society are so large that trying to recoup the costs through taxation wold just encourage most of the drug commerce into the black market anyway.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2015-05-27   14:27:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: GrandIsland (#2)

costly rehab and costly probation, all FREE to the drug addled turd.

Prisons are cheaper? Or more lucrative?

A Pole  posted on  2015-05-27   15:18:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: A Pole (#13)

Prisons might cost a little more then rehabs, drug courts, probation officers and parole officers... but only prison ensures THE FILTH DOESNT RE-VICTIMIZE the population. A very important factor never discussed by the weak pathetic and sympathetic libtards.

Just how much does it cost our society to be repeat offended on? You are right about one thing, building prisons is lucrative... It provides jobs. Your weakness only provides more victims.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-27   18:08:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Deckard (#0)

Massachusetts pays its welfare recipients what would amount an pre-tax wage of more than $24 an hour, and ranks third in the nation in terms of dollars doled out per welfare collector, according to a new study released by the Cato Institute.

Why shouldn't the use of drugs go up when it's easier to be a drugged up welfare queen that it is to have some integrity and self respect.

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

CZ82  posted on  2015-05-27   19:57:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: CZ82 (#15)

Don't expect a reasonable answer. You are asking a person that's made it his life long ambition to champion legal narcotics and has displayed an indifference towards welfare.

Think about it. What's a few staples on the (D) platform...empty prisons, legal drugs and endless welfare? lol... are you seeing the real Deckard yet?

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-05-27   20:14:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: GrandIsland (#16)

displayed an indifference towards welfare.

Lying sack of shit.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-05-27   20:40:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: All (#0)

POLICE: MASKED MAN TRIED TO LURE CHILD INTO CAR ON WEST SIDE.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 09:22PM

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man wearing a plastic, black-colored mask attempted to lure a young girl into his car Wednesday morning on the West Side, police said.

At 7 a.m., the man approached a girl walking to school in the 800-block of North Lamon Avenue, near Chicago and Cicero avenues. The man attempted to block the girl's path with his vehicle as she crossed the street, police said. The man got out of his car and told the girl to get into his car. The girl ran away and was followed for about two blocks by the man in his vehicle. The man then turned down an alley.

The man was described to police as being African American with gray-colored hair, police said. The white, older large sports-utility vehicle, similar to a Chevrolet Suburban, with paint peeling off the upper part of the vehicle, police said.

Anyone with information should call Chicago police at (312) 744-8200. Anonymous Tips can be submitted to TIPSOFT.COM

Gatlin  posted on  2015-05-28   2:58:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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