All of it is shocking and heartbreaking, and the community is rife with concern and fear. The statistical data is alarming, like the fact that in 2014, more people died of heroin overdoses in the state of Maryland than people who died in car crashes or homicides. Equally alarming and closer to home, is the fact that almost all of the people who walk in the doors at the Worcester County Health Department are there seeking help for heroin addiction. The heartbreaking headlines of young people with bright futures being found dead with needles sticking out of their arms are being written more often and families who live in local neighborhoods are quietly struggling to save their loved ones from a drug that doesn’t discriminate between race, class, age or gender.
The epidemic is here and in this community and The Dispatch is dedicated to bringing readers an in-depth and ongoing series that will analyze all facets of the region’s problem and the battle to combat that it.
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Drugs are POURING across our southern (and northern) border.
ReplyDeleteSECURE THE BORDERS!
I don't know about the northern border but the heroin found in the US is coming from Mexico and Columbia. The Mexican cartels have taken over the US heroin trade. It's a very sophisticated Poppy Farm to Users Arm supply chain. Smugglers are coming over the boarder with 2 lbs of heroin in their stomachs and it's not like the old days where they were swallowing drug filled condoms. These are heroin pellets loaded with 14 grams of power. They are machine wrapped in a wax type of paper and then thick latex. Some smugglers can swallow as much as 70 pellets-that's about 30,000 hits @ $10/a pop on the streets.
ReplyDeleteThe smuggler practice by swallowing baby carrots. While on the journey to the US the only thing they can have is water because anything else could erode the pellets' wrappings.
Everyone is crying, oh we have a problem, but in the next breath saying, there is a waiting list to get help.
ReplyDeleteI guess you are not actually focusing on fixing the problem if you were, there would be help available.
You claim you can't arrest your way out of the problem, so then do nothing?
Cops only address the issue, slightly, to get more money.
If you want to fix the problem, then do the right thing. But you won't because a junkie can't afford to pay for help.
See... it is always about money.