Christina Sarich – The ‘drug war’ has been raging in America for decades, costing taxpayers millions, with no real change in the number of people addicted to drugs. We have, in fact, an entire generation of ‘legal’ drug addicts. But there is hope for meaningful change in this world of drug addicts and incarcerations – in Gloucester, MA.

Instead of locking up drug addicts, this police department has a policy of helping them; even better, they are calling out the real perpetrators behind the national drug addiction problem – pharmaceutical companies. You read that correctly – instead of throwing drug addicts in jail, the force uses real solutions that work, without any force, and without bleeding taxpayers dry.

Gloucester’s police department has initiated a program dubbed the “Angel” initiative. Instead of being handed criminal charges for their drug addictions, they are offered a chance to get help. The new program has already sent nearly 200 people to drug treatment centers.

Instead of following the DEA’s war-like raids on private homes and businesses suspected of housing drug addicts, the Gloucester Police Department has realized that it isn’t ‘street’ drugs causing the problem as much as Big Pharma flooding the streets with opiates. Some addicts get their fix from their own doctor’s prescription, and others are sold on a black market, after a ‘dummy’ patient visits as many as 12 doctors’ offices and pharmacies in a day. Continue reading →