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Treatment today doesn't work because its 7 days. The drugs are still in the body. Jail doesn't work because drugs are in jail and even though I favor some type of sentence for habituals so their mind and body have time to start to heal itself and maybe a message might sink in but in my experience Jail and prison make a person even more on guard and anxious and places a barrier and wall up where the last thing they want is treatment its survival in jail and prison and worrying if your gonna be able to sit cause Bubba likes white boys and Bubba weighs 300lbs of muscle and he sends in his friends to rough you up and then he plays the hero by kicking some of their butts and you think you have someone who is looking out for you but the whole thing was planned that way so Bubba has a way in now. A year in a safer place with treatment might work. One thing we know the longer a person is away from alcohol and drugs, the body and mind do heal but until that happens the chances for sobriety and making it past the age of 50 are very low or staying clean are extremely low.
So time for mind and body to heal, in a facility and not jail. Funding these I do believe in the legalization of some drugs, Marijuana and MDMA for psychiatric use in grief and end stage life. Heroin for pain in cancer patients. In Europe its legal and its one of the best and most potent pain medication for pain, so for end of life pain yes I am for it. Cocaine and meth are two drug I see that it would be impossible to legalize, the only way would be to make one big city and if you want to do it you have to live in that city and not leave unless you go thru long treatment.
I just want to see the drugs out of the hands of drug dealers, the mafia, the cartels and the money we can receive in taxes, and savings on prison sentences we put back into treatment and take the drugs out from the cartels and work from their. I get it if someone doesn't have sympathy or empathy for alcoholics or addicts and we do need to take personal responsibility but when your doctor says take this new drug called Oxycontin for you pain and its not as addictive and you can take one or two a day, well I was given 2 80mgs a day for one year, when I stopped I wanted to but my body screamed out for it and I didn't know about withdrawal all I knew when I took the pills I wasn't sick. Anyone have any thoughts on this. Thank You all for letting me share.
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I'm having both knees replaced and due to my surgeons schedule the first one won't be until February. I have chronic ongoing pain. I have no history of Opioid use and I can't get any painkillers until after the surgery as they basically have a pill count on the patient and the Surgeon. But I could probably go down to Main Street and buy what I need. Priorities are all mixed up here.
The other issue is Narcan. It's a great lifesaver no doubt. But it's become a crutch. And why can't the users pickup their used needles?
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I might add it makes me sooo BS to hear drug addiction being a disease. It is NOT a disease!!!
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www.enterprisenews.com/news/20161026/nee...backlash-in-brockton
" A state-sponsored needle exchange program that opened in downtown Brockton earlier this year with approval of Mayor Bill Carpenter is now receiving backlash for selling the city a false bill of goods on its distribution policy. Carpenter sent a letter on Tuesday to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and to BAMSI, the local nonprofit that operates the needle exchange at the C.O.P.E. Center on Pleasant Street, withdrawing his approval for the program because of a policy allowing it to give out more syringes than it takes in. But Carpenter said he would continue his support for the program only if it becomes a bona fide “one-for-one” needle exchange.'
"Carpenter said he was “shocked” to find out recently that the $133,000 annual state grant used to fund the program allows BAMSI and the C.O.P.E. Center to give out needles without taking in an equal amount in return. The Brockton program, which opened as one of six state-funded needle exchanges in Massachusetts, began providing needles to heroin addicts and other intravenous drug users in May. “I believe I fully understood what was explained to me, but for whatever reason it was not communicated to me properly,” said Carpenter, asked if, in retrospect, he regrets not first reading the state's needle exchange contract with BAMSI. “The program was not properly explained to us when it came into the door.”
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I went by the new Father Bills on N. Main Tue. and saw a bunch of homeless hanging around outside already, some of who looked like druggies.
I never saw a building go up so fast in my life.
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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Drugs can be stopped. Reason it isn't is because all of the upper crust need the stuff.
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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As for Carpenter - does anyone think it is OK for our Mayor to admit that he does not read things? And if he is passing the responsibility to the person who "did not communicate it properly" is there no accountability there? What else could he obligate the City to without his knowledge?
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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