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Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users 2
#21674828 - 05/13/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/05/05/gloucester-cops-addicts-ask-for-help-and-won-arrest-you/9nrZEse0deDpPqt1t1VozI/story.html
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Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users It’s a disease, not a crime, the Gloucester police chief said

A kit with naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, is displayed at the South Jersey AIDS Alliance in Atlantic City, N.J. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. An overdose of opiates essentially makes the body forget to breathe. Naloxone works by blocking the brain receptors that opiates latch onto and helping the body "remember" to take in air. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) A kit with the opiate-reversing drug naloxone, also known as Narcan. AP
By Allison Manning Boston.com Staff | 05.05.15 | 12:23 PM
Opiate addicts in Gloucester who come to the police station — even if they’re carrying drugs — won’t be charged with a crime. They’ll get help.
“We’re committed to the idea of attacking the demand rather than attacking the supply,” Police Chief Leonard Campanello told Boston.com.
Following dozens of overdoses in town and a Saturday forum on opiate addiction, Campanello wrote in a Facebook post that any addict who comes to police headquarters will get an “angel” to walk them down the road toward detox recovery.
Even if someone walks in with needles and drugs, they won’t be charged, he said.
Campanello, a former narcotics detective, wrote that opiate addicts are suffering the same disease as those addicted to cigarettes.
“The reasons for the difference in care between a tobacco addict and an opiate addict is stigma and money,” he wrote. “Petty reasons to lose a life.
Four people have fatally overdosed in the town of fewer than 30,000 residents so far this year. More than 1,000 people died of opiate overdoses in Massachusetts last year, more than ever before.

The police chief couldn’t say how much crime is tied to addiction in Gloucester.
“It’s big enough for us to change the fundamental way we deal with addicts and recognize it as a disease and not a crime, in and of itself, that deserves punishment,” he said.
Supporters of addiction services cheered.
“I think it’s amazing,” said Joanne Peterson, founder of Learn to Cope, a support group for families of addicts. “He recognized addiction as an illness. People don’t enjoy being addicted to this stuff.”
Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett hasn’t yet seen Campanello’s full plan, said office spokeswoman Carrie Kimball Monahan.
“The district attorney looks forward to reviewing the substantive and legal details of the chief’s proposed plan,” Kimball Monahan said.
Already, the DA’s office has a diversion program offering treatment in lieu of prosecution for addicts charged with non-violent crimes. Project COPE in Lynn runs the program.
Last year, 72 people enrolled in the program and more than half successfully completed it. Six percent of those who enrolled later committed another crime.
Addicts walking into the Gloucester police station will get help in part from Lahey Health Behavioral Services, which just received a $4.8 million grant to help frequent visitors to their hospital emergency departments.
Most of those “super users,” who show up at the ER 10 or more times a year, have some kind of underlying issue, usually addiction or mental illness. Lahey will provide them with what they need to get better, from food to transportation, detox to housing.
Addicts asking for help from police probably have more motivation to complete treatment than a person seeking another prescription from the ER, said Kevin Norton of Lahey Health Behavioral Services.
Campanello’s plan is untested, but it’s worth doing, he said.
“I think his approach is pretty innovative,” Norton said. “In the face of a crisis, you say, ‘We’ll try anything and see if we get some traction.’”
As part of the Gloucester plan, seized drug money will pay for doses of Narcan, the drug used to reverse opiate overdoses. Anyone who wants the drug can get it from police at little to no cost.
“We will save lives with the money from the pockets of those who would take them,” Campanello wrote.
While users will get help, dealers will get no pass in Gloucester, he said.
“If you’re a dealer, we have no use for you,” he said. “You’re making money out of the pain of others.”
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: 404]
#21675396 - 05/13/15 04:28 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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chh yeah right they gave up on the small frys
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Konyap]
#21675605 - 05/13/15 05:30 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's awesome... having been there, done that, I know from experience that these drugs take lives. Narcan has personally saved my life on four different occasions and has also been too late for at least half a dozen friends. I was lucky enough to have others who stepped in and gave me the reprieve I needed to see how good my life could be.
Some of these "criminals" may not seem worthy of help but that doesn't mean they should be subjected to years of struggle within the justice system for committing a relatively victimless crime (ingesting narcotics). I don't mean to say that addiction is without its' victims because my family suffered immensely, but the act of self destruction cannot be stopped by subjecting that individual to more destruction.
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: ryoung0588]
#21676428 - 05/13/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's decent of them if this detox program is free through them and doesn't require insurance. If not I dont think anyone is going to go to the police station to get help with their drug addiction. I wouldnt want them to know I'm actively using drugs.
The narcotics officer said opiate addicts suffer from the same disease as those addicted to ciggarettes. I dont think he fully understands. Its much worse. Ciggarette addiction is almost all mental, there's no physical withdrawal from ciggarettes when compared to opiates. Heroin withdrawal is the most uncomfortable thing I've ever felt. Its nearly impossible to quit without in-patient medical assistance.
"People dont enjoy being addicted to this stuff." I sure as hell do. I dont want to be physically dependant on opiates but I thoroughly enjoy the high.
Its amazing how some addicts can show up 10+ times a year in the E.R. and continue to use. Never did I feel any danger from shooting heroin. Ive been shooting it for 3 years, sometimes 30-50 bags a day of very pure shit from Newark, New Jersey.
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: PurpleHaze147]
#21676459 - 05/13/15 08:44 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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gross...
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Konyap] 1
#21676477 - 05/13/15 08:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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They should decriminalize all drugs for personal use and maybe crackdown on all this new spice and k2 shit suppliers.
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Konyap]
#21677056 - 05/13/15 10:59 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Edit: deleted. Possible trigger.
Edited by PurpleHaze147 (05/13/15 11:44 PM)
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Laughingcowwa]
#21677132 - 05/13/15 11:25 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Laughingcowwa said: They should decriminalize all drugs for personal use and maybe crackdown on all this new spice and k2 shit suppliers.
Not so sure if decriminalizing all dugs is such a good idea buddy
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Rebelutionsssss]
#21678034 - 05/14/15 08:01 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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plants should be completely legal they're soft
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Konyap]
#21682382 - 05/15/15 10:01 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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“If you’re a dealer, we have no use for you,” he said. “You’re making money out of the pain of others.”
Oh shut up. They make money off the pain of others intentionally. Millions of people are in prison for non-violent crimes. Locking people up is a lucrative business, they make a lot of money from the slave labor at prisons. Dealers see it as they're selling a product that people want and makes them happy. They dont mean to cause any harm. Dealers are the ones who usually get the most addicted I think anyway.
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: Konyap]
#21682481 - 05/15/15 10:35 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Illyabo said: plants should be completely legal they're soft
So opium (morphine) & cocaine are soft drugs? Those r like the hardest drugs out there. Most psychoactive plants are actually legal. Youre allowed to grow a opium poppy garden in your back yard if you want in the U.S..
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: PurpleHaze147]
#21682534 - 05/15/15 10:55 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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PurpleHaze147 said: Ciggarette addiction is almost all mental, there's no physical withdrawal from ciggarettes when compared to opiates.
I think that's a pretty subjective statement. Nicotine definitely causes physical withdrawal.
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: PurpleHaze147]
#21682853 - 05/15/15 12:15 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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PurpleHaze147 said:
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Illyabo said: plants should be completely legal they're soft
So opium (morphine) & cocaine are soft drugs? Those r like the hardest drugs out there. Most psychoactive plants are actually legal. Youre allowed to grow a opium poppy garden in your back yard if you want in the U.S..
it's legal for pharm companies to do it doesn't mean the stuff you get won't be stripped out of that seed genome though
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Re: Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users [Re: 404]
#21683159 - 05/15/15 12:15 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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