While the nation suffers a opioid addiction crisis fueled by profit-hungry pharmaceutical companies, police in a small Pennsylvania town arrested a woman for taking a widely prescribed treatment for opiate addiction while driving.
In this week’s PAR, Stephen Janis and Taya Graham examine the case of Dawn Williams. We explore what this case reveals about the ongoing war on drugs and how law enforcement continues to criminalize facets of civic life, raising troubling questions about the true imperative of American policing.
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Follow the money! Somebodies wallet was being affected
If every addict was prescribed this the cops would have that much less addicts to arrest over and over that's why the government is making it harder to get prisons are cash cows for the government cops go after addicts for easy arrests instead of putting in a little work and catch real criminals that leave victims instead of victimless crimes
They did it because it opens an whole new vista of opportunity for them to profit from that kind of patient. They will sit across the street from these doctors and clinics like they do other drug rehabs, and pull people over as they leave. Like "shooting ducks in a pond"!!
I take buprenorphine by my choice, it's a lot better than opioids. Myself and my doctor have to jump hoops. I truly believe someone gets a share of the use of opioids in this country. They don't want you to quit. I have chronic pain and won't work or want to live without some pain relief.
I can relate to this. My wife dealt with opiate addiction after breaking her back. They gave her ungodly portions of oxycontin until she was dependent, and then cut her off cold turkey. She immediately began methadone, and then transitioned to suboxone, but none of that matters. She is routinely treated, by medical professionals, pharmacists, and police officers, as if she had been addicted to heroine. It doesn't matter that the medical professionals and pharmacists were the smugglers and dealers, and the police officers operate like a rival gang, always demanding to verify the drugs actually belong to her. She is, somehow, the criminal.
Demons at work to destroy your life
Justice is dead. Revenue was replaced it. And the public will pay for there own demise.!
This is the best drug to become opiate free.
Thank God for Suboxone .
I want to know why there's another why there is not another higher police force such as the governor that can stop these crooked cops when they find out about how they're killing people and extracting money from the state but things that don't need it's got to be somebody higher like we got the Texas rangers we got the highway patrol here in Texas they don't try to oversee the crooked operations going on in the small town we don't mind watching your accountability but not to have anybody hire in the system in the state taking over a ride local enforcement and put them in the right perspective or get them fired doesn't seem to be available to the public
same thing happened to me I got pulled over for a bad inspection. I had only a couple hours of sleep as we had a new born baby. the cop asked why I had blood shot eyes, I said because of lack of sleep. long story short he said I failed their tests and the drug specialist thought I was on all sorts of drugs. but in court it got dismissed as I only had Suboxone in my system.
The police officer the prosecutor and every public servant and those involved in this pazy scheme should be charged and jailed both individually and in or as a Rico
See, now that's a problem. Sure you can refuse to do the field sobriety test, and you can refuse to do the breathalyzer, you always have the right to remain secure I'm your person, papers, and effects, but if a cop so much as utters the word alcohol during a traffic stop, they can still violate your natural right to be secure in your person, papers, and effects and haul you to God knows where, jail of course,you know what I mean, and once there forcibly violate your body and take your blood for tests you never authorized, and then search through everything you had with you without your consent or a warrant, then they take copies of your fingerprints simply to be able to put a face and a name together and connect that to a freshly formatted criminal record file with all of your personal information on it that then gets entered into a database of "known criminals" that will probably still exist when our great grandchildren pass away from old age at 175. All done behind often closed doors in rooms with no security cameras, because why would you need a security camera to watch what happens? You're with the police, you'll be safe with them, they're just here to help, after all, the ARE the good guys, right? What could possibly happen to harm you? And once everything is all said and done, and you've been so deeply violated that your very bodily fluids have been removed from you not only against your will, but also by force so they can collaborate with each other and put together a narrative that will justify q mop a. actions despite
5:10 It's not absurd, it's on purpose. They're not there to help you! Even some states don't allow Narcan/Noloxolone, who saves dozens of thousands of lives each years in USA! There is a reason that they allowed Oxy but not Narcan!
3:00 Rule number 1: don't do tests, don't talk to police 🚨!
They purposely victimize people who are already going through life shattering situations 😑 easy pickings
Thanks for policing for profit, Joe Biden
They should not be allow to do this .
I have to tell you a story about my best friend whom was on buprenorphine and just like the policing system child protection division go hand in hand. My friend found out she was pregnant the next day she went to her doctor and told her that she had an opiate addiction and she needed help. That doctor prescribed her buprenorphine which she took as prescribed every day until the day she gave birth. At the hospital she told staff that she was on the medication and this prompted them to call child protection services. The CPS worker came to the hospital and took custody of her newborn son and barred her from the hospital while the baby stabilized as newborns whose mothers have taken this medication will go through a certain amount of withdrawal this is a known fact in the medical community her doctor who was overseeing her health and prescribe the medication was well aware of this. And this was no justification whatsoever on taking emergency custody of her newborn. To make a long story short it took her almost a year to be able to have her baby at home and be a mother a year that she will never get back. I know this doesn't have anything to do with policing but this is an issue and it is sad and people are being persecuted for seeking sobriety how is this?
This samething happened to me in NY. They gave me a DUI, I an still h issues getting my license. So far its been three years, 24 court appearances, and thousands of dollars. I'm struggling with taking care of my 6 kids, all the fines, plus I was fired due to the arrest.
The dui was dropped, but the damage was done. I still don't know what I'm going to do