Boston Police report arresting a local man on a variety of gun, drug and driving charges after a maniacal drive that started on Glenway Street in Dorchester and ended with him under arrest at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue Saturday evening. Read more.
Brianne Fitzgerald, an RN with a master's in public health explains why "harm reduction" efforts, such as an Albany Street facility where addicts can come down from a high under medical supervision, shouldn't be expanded to include "safe injection" sites:
It's essentially giving up hope on people who use IV drugs. One might even call this end-of-life or hospice care. The idea of such a facility takes away a person’s autonomy and essentially forces a social agenda that supports the normalization of IV drug use over active care and treatment.
A WBUR reporter takes us on a tour of Mass. Ave. in the area of Melnea Cass Boulevard.
As Pardini walks down the street, he explains the debris along the pavement.
"There's a cap from a needle. That's an empty heroin bag right there," Pardini says, while warning me to avoid the discarded needles at our feet.
Vice, meanwhile, takes us inside the Spot, a new location where Methadone Mile addicts can go and be monitored while they're under the influence.
WBUR reports on the plans by Boston Health Care for the Homeless for "a room with a nurse, some soft chairs and basic life-saving equipment" at Mass. Ave. and Albany Street, which has become an epicenter of the city's opiate crisis:
Gaeta says she and her colleagues are desperate to offer an option for the people they see overdose every day, whom they must sometimes step over to get into the program’s clinic.
Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office today announced charges against 21 people for their alleged participation in a drug ring that imported heroin, cocaine, and marijuana into the Boston area.
Rafael "Chi Chi" Peguero, 43, of Dorchester, was ordered held in lieu of $2 million dollars at his arraignment today, the DA's office says. Peguero was allegedly at the top of the ring with two other men, both held without bail until authorities can positively identify them.
Welcome back everyone to a great year!
This year Police District 14 is under pressure from the city to strictly enforce the law in the problem area of Allston, particularly the Linden and Gardner Street area.
Disturbing the peace means:
Filed on Citizens Connect today:
Marijuana or crack cocaine smoking device outside transitions drug rehab [in Mattapan] which is funded by city...just thought everyone should know
Rehab fail.
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man on charges of possession of heroin and counterfeit $20 bills on Friday afternoon.
Taylor Dotten, 45, was arrested at 144 Dudley St. (apartment 303, to be exact), shortly after 2 p.m., after a police investigation into that address, police say. In addition to 14 bogus bills and "a certain quantity" of heroin, police say they also seized 14 unidentified white pills.
The Urban Paramedic reports Boston is in one of its periodic upticks in which heroin addicts drop like flies:
... Every night for the past three weeks we've had at least one overdose, and on some evenings we've seen as many as four. It doesn't seem to be letting up. And we're not getting these calls only in Roxbury and South Boston, where heroin has always been a problem. This time around, we're seeing overdoses in practically every neighborhood. ...
He adds the cause could be either purer-than-expected heroin on the street or people simply shooting up more.
Click on through for a rockem-sockem loosey-goosey summary of the media coverage of this story, which was varied to say the least. Will the grand but lightweight Globe take the short-but-sweet prize for best writeup? Or will the rough, battle-hardened Herald take the Globe to the cleaners? What about the litter transit pulp papers? How do the Kings of Swooshing Animations and Lead-Ins fare?
First up, at 194 words: Maria Cramer, from The Globe:
The AP has been busy, finding lots of drugs in people's water. Sadly, Boston is on the list of cities that don't test for this stuff. Look on the bright side; you could live in a city run these morons:
Arlington, Texas, acknowledged that traces of a pharmaceutical were detected in its drinking water but cited post-9/11 security concerns in refusing to identify the drug.
Joel predicts:
You just know that at least one "Law & Order" associate producer is cutting and pasting today's Globe and Herald stories about the death of MIT-educated artist Kevin McCormick in lurid circumstances in Fort Point. ...
Michael ponders his death:
... Heard on the radio news on the way to work - HAMSTERS were discovered in the basement of the Condo. There is a major story shaping up on a VERY weird sex & drug party syndicate. This confirms our longtime conviction that, contrary to the general public conception, MIT guys are some of the most serious partiers on the currect collegiate circuit, and that's saying a lot.
J. works across the street from the place:
The building is square, 8 stories tall, white, made of brick and concrete, and concrete stairs are shadowily visible through the dirty windows on the corners, so of course it's hard to think we were able to imagine it containing anything else. Also, it seems that we all really like saying "meth lab." ...
Jonelle also works nearby:
... The meth lab/fetish palace in question is about 200 yards from my office and (more crucially) shares a building with our favorite South Boston bar. If only we'd known! Afternoon meetings would have been far more tolerable.
I wonder how many times reporters will mention that the alleged "kinky dungeon of drugs" (as Channel 7 so discreetly put it last night) is near the Children's Museum - and how long before somebody like Bill O'Reilly starts denouncing Boston for letting perverts molest children like that.
Oh, my God! Like, the meth lab is only a couple of city blocks away from the Childrens' Museum!!!
Source: The Boston Atlas
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