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Lately I've been reading the Union Leader and I've been seeing quite a few reports of heroin and oxycontin and meth dealing and/or overdoses of same. This leads me to a question: How bad is the drug problem in NH? and is it mostly concentrated in Manchester, or up in the North Country?
I don't see it here in Durham/Madbury or Dover even(although I wouldn't be too surprised of the occasional user)....I think a lot of it is in Somersworth/Rochester area? I have a buddy on the drug task force and he seems to spend a lot of time there.....what I can "glean". Not like a lot of major dealers....but quite a few middle timers.
I hope its overblown....but I think that if it were compared to some major metropolitan areas.....its not that huge. It seems that crime here....there isn't much, but what there is sure makes the news. And a lot of petty stuff from what I see.
I do hear that up north its gaining traction....so Conway? Ossipee? I just don't know. Im not there to comment, nor hang out around it obviously. I don't see that many "junkies".
Exaggerated to sell newspapers and TV adds. There is some but it does not appear to be a big a deal as the media wants us to believe. They use fear to sell stuff. Read at your own risk.
120 overdoses in 2 months with 20 deaths in one city...is not an exaggeration. There is a huge problem.
Sadly there is no help for addicts either. Even if one had the $ to pay for a rehab program, there just aren't any openings. Only 5% of the KNOWN addicts in NH can get help of any kind.
In my experience the major drug problem in New Hampshire and everywhere else is Alcohol. Because it is legal we do not keep statistics on the extent of the problem so it does not exist for the media to exploit. Indeed 20 deaths in one city (per year?) is significant. How large is that compared with alcohol overdoses or the ever present drunk driving?
I am not calling for prohibition of alcohol. That attempt of enforcing "proper" behavior was a give away to the FBI and the Mob that did very little to reduce alcohol use and associated problems. The situation with currently illegal drugs is similar. Criminals and the police are the main recipients of the trade. We pay the police and the users pay the pushers.
Instead of keeping the opiates, meth, marijuana and all the other substances illegal we should legalize all of these chemicals and sell them alongside booze in the state owned liquor stores. If we set the prices high enough to make a profit and low enough that the previous suppliers cannot make any profit they will have to go out of business or sell something else. As the state would buy wholesale and sell at less then current retail we would make substantial profits. Most of these profits should go toward establishing clinics to help any addicts kick their habits.
Just to make this more controversial I suggest tobacco and tobacco substitutes like electronic cigarettes and snuff etc. to also be sold only in State stores and not in grocery or convenience stores. This would remove the advertisements for tobacco products out of plain sight where they can influence children to take up the use of these products.
Lately I've been reading the Union Leader and I've been seeing quite a few reports of heroin and oxycontin and meth dealing and/or overdoses of same. This leads me to a question: How bad is the drug problem in NH? and is it mostly concentrated in Manchester, or up in the North Country?
Opiates and other drugs infest the north country (NH, ME, VT) by infiltrating over the border from Massachusetts. Due to the need for many in southern NH to work in Mass, we unfortunately cannot close the border.
New Hampshire sells booze along it's highways
the abuse of alcohol leads to the following
Rape
Illicit sex among minors
and adults
Abortion
adultery
Wife beating
Husband beating
child beating
road rage
lost work
poor job performance
bar fights
murder
drunken driving,This 'legal" drug
increases your taxes
burdens the health care system
is a large reason for the welfare systems
very existence
is readily available and is found
in the majority of homes
yet rarely is it decried
or considered a serious threat
to society at large by those
that peddle it..and who peddles it?
Your government and it's politicians
most of whom are drunkards themselves
Please.. I have an occasional margarita and even an occasional beer so no I am not calling for the banning of booze but I am saying that it is hypocritical to speak of the evils of illegal drugs when the one that we allow can have far worse consequences then the ones we hype up as being an epidemic
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This leads me to a question: How bad is the drug problem in NH? and is it mostly concentrated in Manchester, or up in the North Country?
