Region still in the grip of deadly heroin addiction

[NutmegYankee]

The heroin flowing into southeastern Connecticut usually originates in Mexico, is high in purity and is readily available from dealers who run their businesses with little regard for the well-being of the user or the community at large, according to law enforcement sources.

Addicts are robbing convenience stores, breaking into homes and stealing from their families to pay for their next bag, police and court officials said in phone interviews Friday.

They are using the drug in increasing numbers in cars, according to the AAA.

And the urge for a better high is so strong that addicts who hear of a particularly potent or even tainted batch of heroin — one that is causing other users to overdose and even die — will look to score some of that batch, according to those who work in the treatment community.

http://www.theday.com/local/20160129/region-still-in-the-grip-of-deadly-heroin-addiction

There have been 15 people hospitalized in just the past three days.

[Warpy]

1. Legal heroin would be in a reliable dosage

so far fewer people would OD and die every year.

Instead of asking why people get dependent on or addicted to psychoactive drugs, the question should be why their lives are so painful that they went looking for them in the first place.

This country has become a hell for ordinary working people.

[luckyleftyme2]

2. IT IS EXPANDING ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND

I think we need to grab the local dealers off the street quickly; some people are under investigation for months while they try to catch the next guy up the ladder. where you find the local -his replacement will have the same area,but it will cause a disruption to their business.
follow the users. get them off the street for 30 days ! maine is getting over run- but when they make an arrest you see where some have been under investigation for months= how many kids and addicts did they hook? speed up the arrests and harassment of the dealers! the policy sucks=to much time allowed for them to spread the poison!

[NutmegYankee]

3. Why not address the reason why people use drugs in the first place?

Why is it they need to escape the shitty reality that is their life?

The current approach - The war on drugs - is lost. It's like the Fuhrer rallying his troops near the Fuhrer bunker in the last days of the battle of Berlin.