“Junkie Business”

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Time to end the "War On Drugs"
Time to end the “War On Drugs”

As many people may know, over the past two years I have been working on a documentary photo project that deals with the issue of heroin addiction. Now I’m ready to put the book and gallery show together, and I’ve decided on a name for the book. I’m calling it “Junkie Business.” There’s just too much money in the drug market: from the dealers themselves, to treatment centers, to doctors, to pharmaceutical companies, and law enforcement. It’s a large part of their economies.

For example: Many mom-and-pop stores here in Chicago give the addicts “shopping lists” of things to boost from the big-chain stores. On average, a heroin addict can boost 10k worth of merchandise each month. Times that by 50 thousand addicts! Bags of Dunkin Donuts coffee, Crest Whitestrips, candybars; you name it, they boost it.

Cops can make an extra $500.00 each week from the dealers. That’s the going rate for a Chicago cop to stay away from a dealer’s corner. It’s well past time to end the “War On Drugs.”

This is worth a read:
Dying To Be Free – There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. Why Aren’t We Using It?

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Paul Donohoe
Paul Donohoe
9 years ago

Good Chuck The public don’t see all this and choose just to blame and punish the people who are addicted The name works!

Chuck Jines
9 years ago
Reply to  Paul Donohoe

Thanks Paul. Look for the first of four magazines to be published real soon.