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Kids today know what Rx drugs can produce a high so if a classmate comes to another kids home and sees a Rx in the Med. cabinet (the first place an addict looks) it gets stolen and introduced and shared with other kids and on and on it goes.what I am trying to say is many parents are unaware they are creating the problem.
Growing up in the 50s we as kids did the exact thing with tobacco and booze and even car keys laying around a friends home (some thing for all to think about is it not ?)
I remember when that story about the 41 Smithtown residents broke. However of you read the article, 20 of the 41 are from Kings Park and 7 are from Nesconset, leaving 14 from Smithtown. The media is feeding into this "Smithtown epidemic". If residents of Massapequa, Hicksville and Bethpage are arrested will the article be titled "Oyster Bay Residents Arrested" because they live in the Town of Oyster Bay? I think the fact that this issue gets press time is good because it's a serious issue, but lets report on it accurately.
It makes for a much more sensational headline when the cumulative number 41 is used and it isn't lying as all the dirtbags are from the same Town. Nevermind the fact that they were from three different communities within the Town of Smithtown.
The report could have read "41 Suffolk Residents Arrested"; but people might have assumed it happened in Brentwood, CI, Wyandanch, or any other predominantly minority community. Chances are the media wanted to avoid this and wished to make this problem known as all encompassing, and not just limited to particular socioeconomic or racial groups.
Smithtown resident Richard Balanda, 29, of Brooksite Drive was among those arrested on charges of second-degree conspiracy for allegedly selling heroin to local residents as part of the drug ring, which spanned from Queens to Suffolk County.
Which brings to mind a murder from 2007 -- too a little digging, but I found it. A then 20 year-old graduate of Smithtown HS murdered a 70 year-old woman, Martha Watson in her Alexander Ave. Nesconset home when he broke in to steal her grandson's Heroin stash. It was alleged the grandson was a big time dealer.
While digging that up, I came across another forum and on it, someone had C&P an article about Heroin use. I will supply snippets as they didn't provide a link but it appears to be from Newsday in 2009:
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Ten months after Watson's murder, a routine community cleanup of the shuttered Bavarian Inn on Lake Ronkonkoma unearthed a disturbing find - dozens of discarded hypodermic needles and glassine bags from heroin.
"They're using the area as a shooting gallery," Fred Gorman, president of the Nesconset-Sachem Civic association, said at a hastily called meeting afterward. "If we work intelligently, we can take it back." The town has since has boarded up the site several times, and police patrol the property.
All of us need to pay closer attention to empty buildings -- commercial and residential -- in our communities.
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On March 8, more than 1,000 people showed up at the forum on heroin abuse held at Nesaquake Middle School in Smithtown. There, residents told of finding needles in streets, and kids shooting up in their cars before school.
East Hills Park, a short walk from Smithtown High School East, was considered a particular problem for drug debris left behind.
"We all know, this type of activity by itself is catastrophic for our youth, but it also leads to other crimes. . . . You have moms and dads and children in a recreational facility where these spontaneous things are of great concern," said Smithtown Public Safety Director John Valentine.
Sadly, we do have to keep our eyes open at parks and fields -- we never know what might be left behind. The last thing anyone wants is for their child (or themselves) to be stuck by a junkie's used needle.
I remember when that story about the 41 Smithtown residents broke. However of you read the article, 20 of the 41 are from Kings Park and 7 are from Nesconset, leaving 14 from Smithtown. The media is feeding into this "Smithtown epidemic". If residents of Massapequa, Hicksville and Bethpage are arrested will the article be titled "Oyster Bay Residents Arrested" because they live in the Town of Oyster Bay? I think the fact that this issue gets press time is good because it's a serious issue, but lets report on it accurately.
There is obviously a problem but it is a widespread problem as seen in that one bust which included people from 3 hamlets. (thanks Walter) I bet you could find at least 14 people with weed in almost any hamlet on Long Island.
Am I a little defensive on the issue? Yes, but only because Smithtown and Massapequa bear the brunt of this topic but I'm not going to deny it all and pretend it isn't happening.
Yes, I did notice it. That's why I used that example.
It makes for a much more sensational headline when the cumulative number 41 is used and it isn't lying as all the dirtbags are from the same Town. Nevermind the fact that they were from three different communities within the Town of Smithtown.
The report could have read "41 Suffolk Residents Arrested"; but people might have assumed it happened in Brentwood, CI, Wyandanch, or any other predominantly minority community. Chances are the media wanted to avoid this and wished to make this problem known as all encompassing, and not just limited to particular socioeconomic or racial groups.
Which brings to mind a murder from 2007 -- too a little digging, but I found it. A then 20 year-old graduate of Smithtown HS murdered a 70 year-old woman, Martha Watson in her Alexander Ave. Nesconset home when he broke in to steal her grandson's Heroin stash. It was alleged the grandson was a big time dealer.
While digging that up, I came across another forum and on it, someone had C&P an article about Heroin use. I will supply snippets as they didn't provide a link but it appears to be from Newsday in 2009:
All of us need to pay closer attention to empty buildings -- commercial and residential -- in our communities.
Sadly, we do have to keep our eyes open at parks and fields -- we never know what might be left behind. The last thing anyone wants is for their child (or themselves) to be stuck by a junkie's used needle.
Exactly! The pigs could at least clean up after themselves. But I guess it's too much to ask of degenerates.
It makes for a much more sensational headline when the cumulative number 41 is used and it isn't lying as all the dirtbags are from the same Town. Nevermind the fact that they were from three different communities within the Town of Smithtown.
The report could have read "41 Suffolk Residents Arrested"; but people might have assumed it happened in Brentwood, CI, Wyandanch, or any other predominantly minority community. Chances are the media wanted to avoid this and wished to make this problem known as all encompassing, and not just limited to particular socioeconomic or racial groups.
Which brings to mind a murder from 2007 -- too a little digging, but I found it. A then 20 year-old graduate of Smithtown HS murdered a 70 year-old woman, Martha Watson in her Alexander Ave. Nesconset home when he broke in to steal her grandson's Heroin stash. It was alleged the grandson was a big time dealer.
While digging that up, I came across another forum and on it, someone had C&P an article about Heroin use. I will supply snippets as they didn't provide a link but it appears to be from Newsday in 2009:
All of us need to pay closer attention to empty buildings -- commercial and residential -- in our communities.
Sadly, we do have to keep our eyes open at parks and fields -- we never know what might be left behind. The last thing anyone wants is for their child (or themselves) to be stuck by a junkie's used needle.
I take my kids to that park all the time and while I do check for paraphernalia, I have never come across any.
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