NJ's Top 20 Towns with the most heroin abuse

[BowhunterNJ]

Pretty interesting list...some towns I wouldn't expect on there.

 

http://holmdel-hazlet.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/20-towns-with-the-most-heroin-abuse-toms-river-on-list-holmdel-hazlet

[Hatchet]

wow  cherry hill . I went to Lenape from 80-84 n heroin was pretty easy to get. a few of my friends went down that road only to crash . always glad I stayed away from that garbage!

[Axiom]

Va friend lost his step son last year to that stuff... Just recently his deceased step sons best friend kicked the bucket because of that crap..  Thing is i dont feel sorry for the stupid "F" at all... After seeing what happened to his buddy he should have been able to connect the dots.. One less dumb a$$ for us tax payers to support is the way i see it...

[Hatchet]

Thing is i dont feel sorry for the stupid "F" at all... After seeing what happened to his buddy he should have been able to connect the dots..

 

i cant agree totally with that Axiom . you know anybody that died of cancer from smoke'n?  i lost my pop n brother to smoking but yet i still smoke and will probly suffer that same fate. addiction is a rough deal no mater what type .  

[Axiom]

i cant agree totally with that Axiom . you know anybody that died of cancer from smoke'n? 

 

 

 ..  ..You're comparing apples to oranges..

[Hatchet]

  yea I guess you right heroin is much more like instant death where it could take   25 yrs to kill you

Edited January 2, 2014 by Hatchet

[Bucksnbows]

All inner cities or next to inner cities.  What's funny about heavily populated states like NJ is that we who live here think the only "cities" we have are Camden, Newark and maybe Trenton.  Most of our larger towns blow away midwestern "cities" in size, but we think of them just as "towns".  With those big towns or cities comes bad crime, and in a liberal state like ours, the crimes are going to be many.  

[Palawman30]

Seems Ive dealt with heroin abuse of one sort or another my entire adult life. I lost an older brother to a bad od when I was 20.. As an Leo I have to say heroin addicts and the way to use has to be the most disgusting form of abuse Ive even seen. Literally EVERY SINGLE white female prostitute we have here is from the burbs or jersey and id be fair in saying that hepititas runs about 95% with hiv at about 50%...Nothing like dealing with a junkie and having one of the absesses pop....Absolutely reeks!!!!!

Spend a Friday or Saturday night in Kensington section of philly and just watch the flow of plates from jersey creeping to find Mr. Brownstone....

 

Ive often wondered heroin addiction runs so rampant throught the white community like crack did in minority communities of the 80's...

 

I ALWAYS get the same old story to when I stop them from copping....My (MOMMMY/DADDY) doesn't love me as they drive high end vehicles to cop dope.

I do believe these kids that are hooked come from families where mommy and daddy just couldn't ever tell little becky NO to anything. These kids then developed such a sense of entitlement that any form of rejection was the end of the world for them.

My favorite line is.....Beat your kids ass so I don't have to!!!  To many parents try to be there kids bestest friend instead of being a PARENT!!!!!

[Haskell_Hunter]

Herion is wicked and massively addictive.  I've done my fair share of intoxicants but never heroin, and I am grateful that I never saw any in my travels.

 

It seems that you can find it anywhere in NJ, it's all over the place.  Someone told me that a Ringwood LEO was dealing it in town and was busted a few years ago for doing so, not sure how accurate that story is.  It's chemically addictive to the junkies and the cash is intoxicating to the dealers.  Lose-lose situation.

[Palawman30]

The sad part of this heroin run is it used to be smuggled in from asia or the middle east now its coming right across the Mexican border in huge quantities. It will only get worse with OD's before it ever gets any better

[Haskell_Hunter]

Yup, headlines like these are becoming more common....

 

http://www.northjersey.com/news/172035181_Ringwood_Bloomingdale_police_suspect_two_young_lives_lost_to_heroin.html

 

It does seem to be more widely available nowadays.  Back in my crazy youth, like I mentioned earlier, no one ever saw or had heroin.  You had to be a rockstar or on skid row to get any.  It was never cool to do that stuff.  Apparently now it is.

[ChrisM]

Im suprised Hamilton is not on that list. In the past 10 years the use of oxycontin (which always heads to Heroin if you dont clean up) has skyrocketed.

[TDaly25]

wow, some shocking names on that list!  Some obvious ones, too

[PV216]

I live in toms river and I've seen the effects of this first hand. My high school was called "heroin high" and that was in the mid to late 90's. One of my best friends overdosed and died about 7 years ago. I tried so hard to help him but I couldn't be with him 24 hours a day. His younger sister died from the same thing 2 weeks ago. Another friend of mine died from it about 15 years ago. And another kid I knew in town ran a young boy over with his car in Newark while buying dope. He killed the kid and didn't stop. He committed suicide(overdosed) while waiting for his murder trial. These were all kids I grew up with. I saw what it did to these people and I never touched it. It really is a horrible drug.

[MackofallTrades]

I live in toms river and I've seen the effects of this first hand. My high school was called "heroin high" and that was in the mid to late 90's. One of my best friends overdosed and died about 7 years ago. I tried so hard to help him but I couldn't be with him 24 hours a day. His younger sister died from the same thing 2 weeks ago. Another friend of mine died from it about 15 years ago. And another kid I knew in town ran a young boy over with his car in Newark while buying dope. He killed the kid and didn't stop. He committed suicide(overdosed) while waiting for his murder trial. These were all kids I grew up with. I saw what it did to these people and I never touched it. It really is a horrible drug.

 

 

My high school had the same nickname and a nearby private school was called "Pope Dope."  I had one classmate who put himself into a vegetative state from an OD and another who killed himself from an OD, both heroin.  Another classmate was arrested for cocaine possession and intent to distribute while he was on school grounds.  He had a considerable amount on him.  One of his friends ratted him out and led the cops to his locker in order to get a reduced sentence for his own marijuana charges.  Drug use in HS was rampant, but unlike years ago, it was way more than just pot smoking. 

 

That was about a decade ago, and there was higher heroin use before I got the HS in the late 90's.