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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2746812" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>Cops Battle Heroin by Abandoning Battle on Heroin Users</p><p>It’s a disease, not a crime, the Gloucester police chief said</p><p></p><p>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. A kit with the opiate-reversing drug naloxone, also known as Narcan.</p><p></p><p>05.05.15</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/p.o0bc.com_rf_image_700w_Boston_2011_2020_2015_04_23_Boston.co1d420c36c0be42e501753973f5432ed3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>“We’re committed to the idea of attacking the demand rather than attacking the supply,” Police Chief Leonard Campanello told Boston.com.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Even if someone walks in with needles and drugs, they won’t be charged, he said.</p><p></p><p>Campanello, a former narcotics detective, wrote that opiate addicts are suffering the same disease as those addicted to cigarettes.</p><p></p><p>“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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/05/05/gloucester-cops-addicts-ask-for-help-and-won-arrest-you/9nrZEse0deDpPqt1t1VozI/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/05/05/gloucester-cops-addicts-ask-for-help-and-won-arrest-you/9nrZEse0deDpPqt1t1VozI/story.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2746812, member: 7629"] 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. A kit with the opiate-reversing drug naloxone, also known as Narcan. 05.05.15 [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/p.o0bc.com_rf_image_700w_Boston_2011_2020_2015_04_23_Boston.co1d420c36c0be42e501753973f5432ed3.jpg[/IMG] 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. [url]http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/05/05/gloucester-cops-addicts-ask-for-help-and-won-arrest-you/9nrZEse0deDpPqt1t1VozI/story.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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