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555 is still doing the same life. She turned to prostitution to feed her habit. It’s sad because I always like 555!
While chatting with her, she noticed the Saint John Police Forces going at Tim’s.
It would be great if the Saint John Police Force announced a huge news conference telling the rest of the country that we need a lot of money from the Provincial and Federal Government for Methadone clinics.
There is no need to have a huge waiting list in New Brunswick for Methadone. People are dying while waiting and this is not right!!! Do people care? Of course not!!!
555 has been on a waiting list for months and months.
Last month a guy name Phil Gauthier.
He came from Vancouver as a guest speaker in Fredericton.
He told the audience that there’s a methadone clinic on every block but here it’s a total different story.
Afterwards, I was chatting with this high profile drug councillor about the numbers of people who's on Methadone.
I feel very bad for 555!
She told me that if she was on Methadone? She would be off the streets!
While chatting with her? She said - Oh dear? There’s goes my drug dealer and I got no money!
You would believe these drug dealers would have a little sympathy once in a while but it doesn’t work this way!
All they do is drive around the City and sell the drugs Pretty good life if you asks moi?
The needles are over the streets in Saint John but our elected official don’t give a darn.
Can you imagine the crime spree that’s going on within the family unit that’s not reported to the Police?
Almost every household has been broken into but the Government don’t care.
Andy Campbell from ATV News did a story last week of the problem with shoplifting in Fredericton because of the problem with Dilaudid.
555 wouldn’t wish to end up as Chrissy < I believe that’s her name?
This young girl died last year and I was told that her heart was 80% block by the oxy-contin. I guess her name was Chrissy!
Her friends put a picture on the corner where she used to work as a prostitute to feed her habit. She’s dead now but maybe her memory will stay around for a bite.
So? What’s going to happen to 555? Is she going to make it? Will she die on the waiting list for Methadone?
In Nova Scotia if someone dies from oxy-contin? The whole province knows but not here in New Brunswick.
They just label it as heart failure. Very sad indeed.
It doesn’t matter what 555 does? She’ll always be a friend of mine.
The old saying is so true You know who your friends are when you’re down?
These days 555 is really down there and I pray that one day she’ll get her much needed methadone.
2 comments:
Thanks for this compassionate portrait of 555, Charles. You continue to put a human face on poverty, homelessness, addiction and related crime in New Brunswick's towns and cities. Shame on the government for not doing more - establishing a methadone clinic at an absolute minimum! What is our excuse for not helping the addicts who WANT to get off drugs?
Where is premier Lord and the promises after the time going door to door?
People from all walks and many situations need help right now not next month or next year; do they care, they pull our strings for votes. Taxpayers money is spent on so many things and wasted on their personal gains. Politicians need to be accountable now.
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