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Title: Experts: Heroin takes lives across Indianapolis at alarming rate
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URL Source: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/ ... -indianapolis-at-alarming-rate
Published: Aug 5, 2013
Author: Jack Rinehart
Post Date: 2013-08-05 20:58:12 by Dakmar
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Views: 184
Comments: 15
INDIANAPOLIS - Heroin has made a big comeback in Indianapolis and officials fear the drug is taking lives across the city at an alarming rate. Because of the city’s intersecting network of interstates, officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said that Indianapolis has become the heroin hub for the Mexican drug cartels. Indiana State Police said heroin was the second most widely purchased drug by undercover officers, second only to marijuana. The surge in heroin use has been fueled by the increase in cost of prescription drugs. The price of heroin has not only declined, but the purity has increased to dangerous levels. A survey by IMPD revealed eight heroin-related deaths in 2009. Two years later, deaths increased by 600 percent. By the end of 2013, deaths will have doubled over the 2011 levels. Officers with IMPD have traced a strong link between heroin use and the city's crime rate. "Someone addicted to heroin could easily account in a short time frame, 15 to 20 burglaries," IMPD Cmdr. Bryan Roach said. In addition to crime, heroin use also accounts for high levels of unemployment and disease. Nate Rush, a former user who now runs an addiction treatment center, said Indianapolis cannot arrest its way out of the heroin epidemic. "We have to build the resources. It’s better to build adequate treatment versus more jails. Because that's not going to solve the problem, treatment does work," Rush said. "If we don't start to see something happening soon, there's going to be a lot more folks in our community that will die unnecessarily from this terrible drug." Officials said the city doesn't have nearly enough beds to treat the people who need the help. State police said the amount of heroin seized across the state has increased by 300 percent. Poster Comment: Indiana State Police said heroin was the second most widely purchased drug by undercover officers, second only to marijuana. I don't think that was meant to be funny. Oh well.
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#1. To: All (#0)
So if train-A leaves the station at 7:00 PM headed to Logansport, and train-B consumes Y gallons of fuel oil per hour... corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
How about letting the Taliban have Afghanistan back? "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Considering the mean IQ of the average heroin user, I see this rash of ODs as Darwinian Theory in action. That comment was funny :)
Nancy Reagan in 2016! corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
^^This^^ I don't see the Libertarians volunteering to adopt these street urchins until all drugs are legalized (yes, that was a slap at that crowd) A survey by IMPD revealed eight heroin-related deaths in 2009. Two years later, deaths increased by 600 percent. By the end of 2013, deaths will have doubled over the 2011 levels.
#2. To: Dakmar (#0)
"If we don't start to see something happening soon, there's going to be a lot more folks in our community that will die unnecessarily from this terrible drug."
#3. To: Dakmar, 4 (#0)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
I see this rash of ODs as Darwinian Theory in action.
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: Southern Style (#2)
The guys who were eradicating poppies? How is that going to prop up any local warlords? How about letting the Taliban have Afghanistan back?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#7. To: Dakmar (#6)
Hadn't gotten that far along in my thought process's but should propping up warlords be an important part of spreading the virtues of democracy around the planet? How is that going to prop up any local warlords?
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
#8. To: Dakmar (#0)
The pigs know who the junkies are. The pigs know who's selling the heroin. The pigs let the junkies kill themselves. Heroin has made a big comeback
#9. To: Dakmar (#0)
My neighborhood (near eastside, Indianapolis) in the 1970s had loads of heroin addicts and deaths. Most of the people on it were thieves.
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.
– Plato (429-347 BC)
#10. To: Dakmar (#0)
There's drugs in Indy? We'll nuke it from orbit. - Cmdr. Esso, Weyland Yutani Corp., USCM
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#11. To: Esso (#10)
Take out D.C 1st, please ! There's drugs in Indy? We'll nuke it from orbit
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.
– Plato (429-347 BC)
#12. To: noone222 (#11) (Edited)
But then who will protect my freeedumbs???????? Edit: Holy crap! Eight question marks. That's some serious shit.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#13. To: Southern Style (#7)
Propping up warlords is good for business. Democracy ain't got nothin' to do wid it.
Know guns, know safety, know liberty. No guns, no safety, no liberty.
#14. To: Dakmar (#0) (Edited)
Heroin is getting a resurgence because various federal and industrial moves have made oxycontin and other prescription drugs of abuse too expensive, too difficult for junkies to get, etc., but heroin is still available in completely unregulated ways ... apparently with some competition in the marketplace to keep the prices within bounds. The heroin trade has changed with the times. The post-9/11 security precautions in airports and border crossings tended to complicate heroin traffic ... but more seriously impeded marijuana smuggling (since mj is so much bulkier and requires being moved by the bushel and the carload). As mj became less easy to get, the smugglers were highly motivated (as they always were) to get their pot customers to switch to heroin, which is much more compact and therefore easier to smuggle for the same amount of money. Same logic applies to cocaine. Heroin addiction is almost impossible to shake. And, because the insurance companies will pay for only 28 days of rehab, most rehab facilities have deliberately trimmed back their programs to that 28 days - notwithstanding that 28 days is probably something like 4 or 6 months short of being really effective. You want long-term detox - there's always 10 years in prison (except, of course, ....).
#15. To: Shoonra (#14)
Heroin is getting a resurgence because the US invaded Afghanistan and had the poppies replanted to provide the raw materials from which it's made. As always, the US is behind the drug trade and the bankers are behind the US. Heroin is getting a resurgence because various federal and industrial moves have made oxycontin and other prescription drugs of abuse too expensive, too difficult for junkies to get, etc., but heroin is still available in completely unregulated ways ... apparently with some competition in the marketplace to keep the prices within bounds.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
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