There will always be challenges at Town Meeting, as there should be. Bumpy though it sometimes feels during town meeting, the town gets to the right place in the end.
“Dopesick” is about a drug that was sold as non-addictive, but is so incredibly addictive it is almost impossible to kick. It kills more Americans than the wars we are fighting.
“We live in a wonderful town...a beautiful community. How do we get people to realize that when we’re walking along shopping there are kids buying and selling heroin?”
--- Kingsley Little, whose son suffers from heroin addiction
Drug courts substitute traditional criminal penalties, like incarceration, with intense, supervised drug treatment and testing. Drug courts significantly reduce crime as much as 35 percent more than other sentencing options.
The Obama Administration is committing millions of dollars to contend with the prevalence of heroin addiction in New England. The Berkshires are not immune. A poem, here, about what an overdose feels like.
