Major federal anti-heroin effort coming to Louisville
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/health-and-medicine/article103400177.html
Is this a Freudian slip ? the plan calls for the need to better educate the public on the dangers of pain pill reliance. More change in the nomenclature of no more addicts/junkies .. just those that suffer from a “opiate use/abuse disorder” They are also going to “fight crime”… but.. if we treated those who are abusing opiates.. as the people with mental health issue of addictive personality disorder.. there would be less crime, violence and deaths… and LESS NEED FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT… if the cartels had no customers… there would be no need for a war on drugs ?
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Louisville has been chosen for a federal pilot program aimed at combatting heroin and prescription drug abuse as well as related violent crime.
Federal and city officials announced Wednesday that Louisville will be part of what the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is calling a “360 Strategy” to curb the opioid crisis, news outlets reported. The program is already in place in Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Milwaukee.
Federal funds will be used to form a Heroin Investigation Team consisting of Louisville police detectives and DEA agents that will investigate heroin overdoses as crime scenes.
Investigators are planning to crack down on local drug dealers, larger suppliers and track doctors at the center of pill mills.
Dealers whose drugs cause overdoses will now face a minimum 20-year prison sentence without parole, U.S. Attorney John Kuhn said.
“Our targets are not addicts … but the dealers who are willing to destroy lives for the sake of profit,” Kuhn said.
In addition to aggressively prosecuting dealers, the plan calls for the need to better educate the public on the dangers of pain pill reliance. One way in which the DEA has recently been trying to accomplish that goal in Pittsburgh is by staging a play that educates students about the dangers of experimenting with pills and other drugs, The Courier-Journal reported (http://cjky.it/2dnarg2).
“Who would think the DEA would be putting on plays, but it works,” said DEA Special Agent Patrick J. Trainor, spokesman for the administration’s Philadelphia Division, which includes Pittsburgh. “It’s effective in getting the word out. We’re ramping up awareness like never before.”
Jefferson County had 268 drug overdose deaths last year, more than any other Kentucky county. Of those deaths, 131 were heroin-related.
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It is another way to increase an already crowded prison into an overcrowded warehouse for nonviolent offenders. When will our government ever listen to us us!?
Here we go again! The Pill Mill Bill wasn’t enough. It did nothing but CAUSE the heroin crisis. So what have we learned…NOTHING! This is outrageous. Doctors who ARE still prescribing in Louisville, will likely begin to think twice about it now.
So, you’re thinking, “How can things get much worse for chronic pain patients in Louisville?” Here you go!!
What is wrong with them ? They have no idea what they are talking about !
I think this governer should look in the mirror,,,he is the one who is placing profits infront of humanbeings rite to no forced endurement of physical pain,,maryw
Once again I see this as a way to make life more difficult for the chronic pain community ! I am ready to blow a cork every time I see heroin and pain pills linked since, as we know, most of those are stolen or bought on the streets not prescribed to actual pain patients! Just another form of job security.