According to the Federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription medications (such as the pain
killer, Oxycodone) more people die from the ingestion of these legal drugs than
from heroin and cocaine combined.
The addiction rates in New Jersey for such pain killers as Oxycodone, as in other every
other state has raised to an epidemic.
More people unable to obtain enough of the drug, because of the
crack-down on physicians prescribing the medications, are resorting to
obtaining the drug through the black market illegally. The costs of one black market pill of Oxycodone
can be has high as $30.00. Because of
this more and more users are committing crimes to afford enough of the narcotic
to satisfy their addiction. In some
cases people are taking as much as twenty pills per day.
The New Jersey Drug Court
Program was initiated for just such people.
However, more and more county prosecutors in New Jersey are denying
enter into the program for people addicted to Oxycodone because they have
committed crimes such as robbery, thefts, burglary or strong armed robberies to
fuel their addictions. The prosecutors
that are doing this fail to understand that but for the addiction these people
would not have committed the crimes in the first place.
In many cases the
individuals addicted to these pain killers are men, many construction workers,
who need the use of their physical bodies to perform their job and support themselves
and their families. Without the pain
killers their pain is just too unbearable to work. Others, were involved in serious accidents
and live with serious depilating pain, and cannot get by the day without such
medications.
It is time that some of
these short-sighted prosecutors with no compassion or understanding for the
less fortunate understanding what is happening to these individuals addicted to
these prescription drugs, and give them a second chance in the Drug Court
Program. A lawyer or any paper-pusher
can perform his or her work even with physical pain from a injury, but try to
bend, twist and lift for an eight-hour day doing physical labor and see how
fast your perspective changes.
Locking these individuals
up for 10 or 15 years, which is not uncommon with many prosecutor plea offers,
because they committed a crime(s), in pursuit of satisfying their addiction is
not the answer, and does not serve the people of New Jersey.
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Sanzone, Jr.
P.O.
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North Broad Street
Elizabeth (Union County) New
Jersey 07207
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