Maryland's historic capital is known for sailing and shopping, a place where people eat seafood at waterside restaurants. It's not a place that city police considered a destination for people looking to buy heroin - at least, not until recently.
An increase in heroin-related deaths has been described by federal officials as an urgent health crisis around the country, and Maryland is seeing the drug's scourge in new ways.
"What we didn't know was the breadth of the problem where people were coming from outside of Annapolis," Police Chief Michael Pristoop said in a recent interview while discussing the May indictments of nine people involved in selling heroin, including the alleged leaders whose arrests Pristoop believes have put a big dent in local heroin activity.
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How much of our limited tax monies are going to be spent on trying to put a small dent in heroin trafficking? It's much more than a state or city problem. It's everywhere in the nation.
ReplyDeleteEven though every gram of the stuff comes from outside the United States we don't hear much of anything about how the feds are addressing the problem. And Obama is silent.
There are nine people indicted. There are 900 out there ready to take their places.
ReplyDeleteAnd has the indictment of these 9 made the drug less available, or raised the price, or lowered the number of users?
Even if our country wiped out every poppy field in Afghanistan, they have enough opium on hand to supply two years of heroin on the global market. Our military has occupied that country for the last 14 years, just a coincidence?
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