On Top cops warn of heroin invasion
Posted on March 26 at 7:59 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
worldlove - If I would have said ALL people who become addicts started out using prescribed drugs then I would agree that would be an UNEDUCATED statement. I did not say ALL addicts start that way. The point I was trying to make is that heroin addicts do NOT start out with heroin. It starts out with them taking LEGAL (prescription) drugs and before ya know it one or two pills is not strong enough to relieve the pain anymore so they start taking more and more and eventually they start heroin because it is cheaper than the overabundance of pills they are taking on a daily basis. I am VERY educated on this as I am LIVING it. I certainly dont know everything, but what more education could a person get than by first hand knowledge from living it. I can also tell you that they DID choose to do the drugs but they DONT choose to be addicts. The need for treatment is to help them discover WHY they are doing the drugs in the first place, as they are ALL trying to relieve themselves from some kind of "pain"...whether that be chronic physical pain or some kind of mental/emotional pain...whatever the "pain" may be is what they are trying to rid themselves of. And until there is some kind of professional care they can seek without all the "red tape" to hold things up for months and months, we will continue to battle a "war on drugs". I agree that if jail is the only way you can keep someone alive, then by all means they should be there. But I guarantee you, jail is only postponing the problem. When they get out they will still be addicts until they are able to get into some long-term inpatient treatment.
On Top cops warn of heroin invasion
Posted on March 26 at 9:23 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I am so SICK of people putting/wanting these addicts in jail/prison as their means of punishment. Do you not realize that the drugs are already punishment in itself. TREATMENT TREATMENT TREATMENT!! My son is addicted to heroin and he just got out of prison after being in for TWO YEARS. We all (incl himself) thought he was done with the addiction only to discover he is not. Jail/prison does NOTHING to help these people change their way of thinking to allow them to become sober and to STAY that way. Jail/prison is just as bad as the drug itself. You can NOT "hide" the problem and hope it will go away! We have been actively trying to seek help for my son and it is not easy. We have called over 10 places and we have YET to get only ONE call back from a place that told us that the first place we need to start is gettin him financial aid thru the County and they will not talk to us until that has been established. Not only that but they will not even take anybody unless they have detoxed FIRST. He is hurting; he is struggling; it is very sad. If you have never had experience with a drug abuser then you have no right to judge. My son does NOT want to be on these drugs and he is BEGGING for help. The system is BROKEN and is a complete JOKE for anybody who really WANTS to get help. You "informants" are doing NOBODY any good by overcrowding the jails with people who are sick and need help. If YOUR child/parent was deathly ill...would you have him/her put in jail or would you take them to a hospital??? I think its the informants and the judgmental people who have NO clue that need the education! Come live in my shoes and you will have all the education you need to realize what its REALLY all about. Until Wisconsin realizes and pulls their head out and provides a treatment center that these addicts can go to and admit themselve at any given point in the day/nite and worry about the paperwork and money later, then we will continue to have this epidemic and it is only going to get WORSE! Take it from someone who is LIVING this nitemare and Im not even the addict. Imagine the nitemare the addicts are living. And you can say...Oh boo-hoo they did it to themselves! These people did NOT start using drugs so they could become addicts. They started using bcuz they were probably put ON the drugs by a doctor or therapist either due to an injury and were given pain pills or they were depressed and given pills by their therapist to help with their depression. What happens is they soon become addicted to these PRESCRIBED drugs and they need more than the doctors are giving them to ease the pain because the prescribed dose just isnt doing it anymore as their bodies have become immune to the prescribed dosage and they need MORE so they soon try illegal drugs to substitute for the legal ones and before you even KNOW it a drug addict is "born". Have some compassion for your fellow brothers/sisters who need HELP not your sarcasm and uneducated comments.
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On Deputy accused of sexual assault
Posted on November 7 at 5:23 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
To "localboysince1968"...I don't know what planet you come from but you are NOT innocent until proven guilty. You are only innocent if you can AFFORD IT!!! You can buy your innocence long before you can prove it. This guy will only get a slap on the wrist like the other sheriff who only got disorderly conduct for something anybody else would have been charged with felonies (kidnapping, endangerment, battery, and any other charge the arresting officed felt like giving him). If you are in any law enforcement position and violate the law you should be treated like any other criminal AND be fired and banned from law enforcement anywhere period! They go to school for law enforcement...THEY should know BETTER than the general public!!