[thetribe]

Good post alfus.

Her lawyer was probably Eric C. Conn. lol


People in Eastern Kentucky face hardships. Many women are housewifes and many men are coal miners. We don't have a thriving economy. Our elderly have very low set incomes. They bring in a month what average families bring in every two weeks or less. I don't see where they think selling drugs would help their situation though. It does indeed make money, everyone can see that, but people get caught. Daily. UNITE is working hard to take pillpushers off from the streets. They set up investigations and watch people for months to gather enough evidence and charges to put them behind bars for a VERY long time instead of just busting them with one pill and in turn getting them a slap on the wrist. Elderly, poor, young, and rich all should have the same punishment and the punishment should be harsh. Getting these people off the streets and out of people's lives may give them time to think about what they have done, let them sit there and decide that they never want to be there again..Users will eventually decline when the distributors are gone.

It's a weird situation with drugs but alot of dealers won't just sell to everyone. They have to know the people and have trust in them because they don't want to get caught. If a user's dealer gets put behind bars then they have a much harder time buying some drugs the next time that they need them. If this happens enough and communities are targeted, a little at a time users will just have to decrease the rate that they are buying and hopefully end up without a hit every time that they go out and the problem will be stopped.

Maybe not everyone here knows the deal with the KSP but the police departments in this area are as much involved with the pushing of pills as the dealers are. They don't catch people they are leading big drug rings instead they are protecting them. Officers that are high up in the department, not just standard officers are warning dealers of upcoming busts, giving them time to get rid of the evidence before a raid and such, and in doing so the problem will never be solved as well as it could be.

The police should HELP the community and make it a better place by taking the drugs away from people of all ages. Kids are getting involved younger and younger every year. UNITE is working with good officers, not the crooks, and are going around police and making their own busts. This program is truely helping Applachia. When you see the big busts on the front page of the newspaper, don't ever think that it is the Kentucky State Police department making the raids in the counties of Eastern Kentucky and rounding up all of these pills and other drugs and getting these people out of our community. It is NOT the police, it's the UNITE program. UNITE is starting programs with schools and within communities for people to come together and help get these problem solved.

Sorry that I wrote a novel guys, it is just that this problem affects all of us. We all know people that are having drug problems whether it be a friend, family member, someone that we have lost to this addiction, an old friend that we severed ties with because of their problem....Drug addiction touches us all. Sorry that I got off topic, just very passionate about solving this problem by any means possible.