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Summer 2015 • Kentucky
that the participants bring in their needles to
be exchanged otherwise they will toss them
somewhere in a park or some other public
place. They told us to make sure that law
enforcement officials won’t penalize them
for taking part in the needle exchange program and to make sure that department staff
can be trusted to maintain confidentiality.
Some noted that many people in emergency
departments talk down to them so they
don’t come in for help with things like infections; instead they wait until we are so sick
that they have to be admitted. They said that
the lack of access to detoxification centers
is a barrier to entering a drug rehabilitation
program because the rehab programs won’t
take them until they are ‘clean’. All of them
wished they could kick the habit and all of
them said that a needle exchange program
will not increase the number of addicts-people who are going to be addicts will do
so with or without needle exchanges.
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in to treatment for some and that some of
the participants join the ranks of those who
have successfully quit. One has to hope so
because this drug abuse problem is eroding
our state’s future human capital.
One of the inmates, a young woman in
her early twenties spoke about the human
side of drug abuse—a side that rarely gets
media attention. Her poem about her experience follows. She described drug abuse
as she sees it so I share it with the reader.
Perhaps needle exchange can be an entry
Goodbye Heroin
Heroin,
I’m writing this let to tell you goodbye.
I loved you oh so so much,
that you even made me cry.
I would do what I had to do just to get high.
I promised myself that I would
never ever tell you goodbye!
The feeling you gave me was quite a thrill,
And the first time I shot you,
we made that sweet deal.
When I used you once- you said you’d let me go,
But I used you twice – And I gave you my soul!
From that moment I promised you, that we
would always be a whole, and
that I would never ever then
Let You Go.
Even if I died doing you, you would follow me to
my grave,
Because you stuck with me down that Long,
Dark, Lonesome road we paved!
So one thing I know, is when I gave you my soul, I lost
all feeling, and even my
sense of hope.
I didn’t care about anything, but keeping you
around because I knew I would
never have to feel down as I shot you.
You only made me feel well, other than that you
caused me nothing but HELL!
Now here I sit in this big ol’ cell with nothing
to do but sit here and DWELL!
Now I know that I can never again pick you up.
Because if I do, the next time
I will truly be stuck.
So this is why I have to tell you goodbye
And I never again wanna get high
Because the next time I know
For sure I will die!!
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