Cops Decide Heroin Addicts Will Be Helped With Rehab, Not Arrested

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People who turn in their d--gs to the Gloucester Police Department and ask for help won’t be arrested, they’ll be rehabilitated.

Additionally, the department will start using money seized from d--g dealers to provide addicts’ families and pharmacies with Narcan free of charge. The life-saving d--g, if administered at the scene, can reverse an overdose.

Chief Leonard Campanello announced over the weekend that any “addict” who walks into their department with d--gs and paraphernalia will not be criminally charged.

 

“We will assign them an ‘angel’ who will be their guide through the process. Not in hours or days, but on the spot,” Campanello told Massachusetts Live. “I’ve never arrested a tobacco addict, nor have I ever seen one turned down for help when they develop lung cancer, whether or not they have insurance. The reasons for the difference in care between a tobacco addict and an opiate addict is stigma and money. Petty reasons to lose a life.”

Campanello, who spent seven years as a plainclothes narcotics detective, has posted the plan onFacebook, asking people to “Like” the post and “create strength in numbers.” Nearly 29,000 have shared the post so far.

 

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/heroin-addicts-will-be-helped-with-rehab-not-arrested/

 

 

How nice of them, Hats off

[NewYorkCity 10,536]

Great decision. They are sick, and putting them in a jail for a little time and then letting them out is not going to solve the problem.

[hmm 979]

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[Poot 719]

great

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[Serendipity 7,821]

Great decision. They are sick, and putting them in a jail for a little time and then letting them out is not going to solve the problem.

​I agree

They need help, not more problems

[Bebe 17,289]

I can't believe it! Responsible, humane and helpful d--g laws!

This is a great, great story

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