Pubdate: Sun, 08 Sep 2019
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2019 The New York Times Company
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: Bryan Gruner
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n017/a02.html

NO PROGRESS IN HEROIN EPIDEMIC

Wow! Are you kidding me? This is the most fantasized assessment of
Seattle's drug epidemic I've ever seen. In actuality, we are spiraling
toward complete social meltdown here, and Nicholas Kristof thinks
we've figured out how to end the war on drugs?

As a three-decade resident of Seattle, I can tell you that from the
sprawling homeless camps ringing the city, to the bedraggled hordes of
dead-eyed addicts on Second Avenue, to the piles of human feces in
Pioneer Square, there is no progress being made to end the heroin
epidemic in this city. Whatever actions local governments are taking
only make things worse.

Seattle is becoming a wasteland of crime, refuse, excrement and
addiction. It's disgusting to watch and it gets worse every year.

Bryan Gruner
Bellevue, Wash.
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MAP posted-by: Matt