Quincy Drug Court parking lot also a needle park?

– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.

“The needle and the damage done” – Neil Young
Photo to Quincy Quarry by Anonymous Quincy

Quincy Drug Court parking lot also a needle park?

Quincy Quarry was tipped by Citizen Journalist Anonymous Quincy that hypodermic drug paraphernalia litters the public parking lot directly across from the Quincy District Courthouse and wherein is domiciled the local so-called Drug Court.

It was not possible, however, to confirm by the publication deadline for this story to potentially eliminate the possibility that the needle user was a disappointed member of the recent graduating class of the Drug Court at which duly embattled Mayor Thomas P. Koch inexplicably canceled his RSVP presence at class graduation ceremonies.

A Quincy Quarry Citizen Journalist file photo

Regardless, drug abuse – especially of opiates – continues to soar in Quincy in spite of – or perhaps even enabled by – Quincy Mayor Koch’s much-touted as well as no strings attached Narcan drug overdose recovery program.

Conversely, the far smaller community of the Town of Gloucester MA is reporting daily rates of comings forward by drug addicts to surrender their drugs and then enter into rehab programs at numbers far higher per their new and both cost-effective as well as also low-cost drug abuse response program than the daily rate at which Quincy police officers administers Narcan.

Opium poppy cultivation
No obvious photo attribution

Further, Quincy gathers no such program effectiveness metrics for those who might enter rehab after revival by Narcan from an overdose as the Quincy Narcan’s no strings attached Narcan administration program does not require that those saved from possible death by overdoing enter a rehab program.

In the meanwhile, the cost of Narcan doses is soaring given that it is being given away and there are widespread rumors of local frequent repeat Narcan dose recipients.

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