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Narcan is making it so much easier for the addict to continue using.
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2/1/1938-5/4/2019
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How is it that we can forgive a committed crime and instead give everything we have to help them?
Can someone please explain to me how laws can simply change when they want it to?
If using drugs is no longer a crime, how will it ever be stopped?
Put them behind bars and maybe the pushers will have less people to sell their deadly killing crap to. Sounds a lot more intelligent and also makes me feel better that a crime is still a crime and not something to be rewarded for.
Who dreams up these asinine solutions?
edited to add: How many innocent lives are lost due to an ambulance being utilized for addicts who OD?
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"The Massachusetts state Senate unanimously approved legislation Thursday that would limit doctors’ initial opioid prescriptions to seven days and require schools to screen students for drug abuse. Parents and students could opt out of the screen. The vote came a day after the House of Representatives unanimously approved the same bill."
I wonder where the Schools are going to get the money to screen specifically in Brockton where we've been warned repeatedly of the devastating cuts to the School Budget. How are they screening? Who gets the results ? A little too Big Brother for me. What if the student opts out? Does it go on a public record that they opted out? What if they test positive?
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I don’t believe in changing laws for anyone who commits a crime and that is exactly what they are doing.
(Scenario): I’m a drug user and do whatever I want now. Whoopie!)
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this is tantamount to abbot and costello's 'who's on first?"
laws and crimes aren't mutually exclusive, Capt... crimes wouldn't exist in the absence of laws
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If drug using is no longer a crime, why shouldn't drug pushers
be exempt as well? Same law, same crime. Using or selling;
drugs are involved.
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Nothing will change or sway my mind. Crime needs to be dealt with the same way
for everyone. No exceptions.
Drug dealers are literally killing people everyday. They should go up for murder. They don't
even have an idea as to how many people they've killed, but keep doing so.
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... it certainly can serve as a deterrent, yes
unless, of course, people become addicted to crime by committing crimes... thus becoming 'crime addicts'
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The Gloucester program is funded by money seized in drug busts, though I read that the federal government is no longer giving these funds to police departments. Many of us complain about the fact that drug abusers are arrested, jailed, released, re-arrested, etc. They figure that if they can give a one-time pass and lead some of these addicts towards sobriety, it will save money and decrease the overall desire for drugs. They are willing to consider the actual addition a disease rather than a crime. These people are paired with a volunteer "angel" who work to guide and place the addict towards recovery. If it is acceptable for alcoholics, it does make sense that it may help addicts. Here is the key - with this program, they saw a 1/3 drop in crime associated with drug addiction. Isn't that what we want? If the program does not cost the taxpayers money, and if addicts can reverse which translates into lower crime, isn't there some merit to this? The laws did not change - this is directed only to those who turn themselves in, thus they are not involved in criminal acts. ODs are overloading our justice system and result in little or no punishment in many cases. Many overdoses are not illegal because the drugs themselves are LEGAL and prescribed. I am skeptical that many lives are lost due to ambulances helping those who overdose. Paramedics and firefighters can now administer a drug to reverse an OD so they are actually still saving lives. I respect your opinion and even agree with a tiny bit of it, but you are stating a very narrow view here. Putting an addict behind bars is not punishing the supplier. Helping an addict to overcome an addition will definitely punish the supplier if enough people are weaned off the drugs..
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an alcoholic is not buying illegal alcohol nor is it a crime. As for AA,
it appears it is the only program available for alcoholics. Does
anyone know the success rate?
Prescription drugs are not legal if obtained illegally, so shoot that one
down. All I see are excuses, excuses.
Sure, I’m for those who volunteer for the drug program and yes, I do
hope it works, but in general, I’m totally against drugs and especially
the stupid ignorance of new addicts.
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www.fox25boston.com/news/needles-found-n...-a-problem/446081562
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We're foolish to think the war on drugs will ever win. As long as the upper crust needs drugs,. a good number of the dealers are protected. People tend to think of drug abusers as low or middle class. Just consider how many entertainers have died.
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and then the poo is really going to hit the fan... that is what it is going to take before something is really done
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