That is being self-serving and short sighted. Your child is an addict and rather than focusing on what may be an opportunity to help her hit the proverbial "bottom" so she is ready to get help. You help her pretend it isn't her fault by attacking the witness. You are helping your child to stay an addict by providing excuses and trying to get her out of trouble.

I think you need to do some soul searching. Why does your own ego come before your child? Why don't you love her enough to be the bad guy? If you love her you won't lie or sugar coat this for her. We can stand beside our children giving them love and support without shielding them from reality. But if we help them hide we are not helping them, we are hurting them and keeping them addicts. Because why should they stop? The mess they make? What mess? Mommy and Daddy clean it all up so where is the problem?

If you are afraid your darling will be mad and never speak to you again. I say so what. Better she get clean, learn something and not speak to you, than be dead. The reality is that is your choice.

So your little darling gets hooked on dope, someone finally puts her in a position to get help, and you want to threaten that somebody? I dont believe that falls into the realm of overprotection of your daughter, it sounds like overprotection of your dealer.

Most of those clinics have replaced it with Suboxone. But even that is crap, and not available here. And with good reason. They are opiates just like the heroin they "replace". It is not a treatment, it is a substitute. Swap one addiction for another. Most use those clinics to supplement what they can afford to buy. If it were a legit treatment why would their "clients" be needing their drugs for years on end?

No one spoke to the character of the witness. Just the actions of the "parent". The character of the CI does not excuse the choices of the accused, period. That is a seperate issue entirely.

I believe we need inpatient treatment available. I have said many times our sentencing of drug crimes should include 18 - 24 months of inpatient rehab. I have never seen any value in short 90 day programs, that barely scratches the surface. I believe that long term the expense of such a rehab would pay for itself down the road with people coming out clean and prepared to re enter the community drug free and with the tools, ability and confidence to remain so. If the point of prison is to rehabilitate, then lets do that, lets put them in rehab.

I do see value in busting the nickel and dime street dealers. It serves to warn off the next wave of idiots, maybe just one or two, but two saved lives are worth it. If even 10% of those busted choose a new path, their lives are worth it. It is a chance that they might not get other wise. I speak from a place of having lost classmates, friends, loved ones. I speak from the love and time spent caring for little ones created and abused because of their parents use.

we have a lot of islands in SE Alaska. lets build some really basic facilities and ship all the convicted drug addicts out there to detox. no cell phones, no internet, no contact until they are clean.

Let's change the culture of the city. I'm going to blame the political climate that has ruled Juneau for years.

Why else have drugs become so prevalent in the community? Because the addicts can get away with using and selling.

Progressive ideology (in the courts, schools, city government), atheism, environmentalism, etc. all contribute to cultural problems.

Time to try some conservative leadership?

While this might be a nice feel good story for the community about "gettin' the bad guy", it does NOTHING to stop the drug problem in Juneau. It's a hierarchy, bulk supplies that dwindle down through several steps until they reach the bottom of the pyramid, street dealers.

And that's just what we continue to do...bust street dealers and everyday users. More often than not these are people that sell just to feed their own habit. We get our nice police report that helps Johnny Oblivious sleep at night because he sees that JPD caught a couple names. Names. They're symbolic. It stops nothing. The problem in this town gets worse and worse (and yes, it does) because no attempts are made at cutting the supply higher up. You don't kill a tree by cutting off a few twigs and leaves...because more will grow back.

Disagree all you want, but if our system was working, why is the problem getting worse in the community? Why are recidivism rates at 83%? Because we get our few names, toss them in a damn NA class where they play board games for an hour every other week while someone with a high school diploma (hopefully) tells them drugs hurt them. (I'm not kidding people, that's the level of treatment available in Juneau, with zero sarcasm) Durp, guess they're fixed now, put em on the street!

But hey, if you sit back and believe your system works and do nothing other than point fingers and simplify the problem as this black and white, well then, it works just fine. Dopehead is a dopehead, durrrr! This is not a deterrent in any way, shape or form. Go ahead, pretend that these arrests mean anything, or that they change anything at all. They don't. They don't mean a damn thing. Nothing. Nada. Zero.

PS- I was pretty sure I was the only Treyshawn in Juneau. Seems like someone I'd get along with though.

Atheism? Atheism is the problem? This has to do with Atheism? Because all atheists just want drug dealers to get away with it, right? I'm pretty sure that's their fundamental platform, right up there with kicking puppies and hurting freedom.

The cultural problem isn't atheism Calypso, it's judgmental scumbags with incongruous religious agendas that point the finger at these people and label them.

I think Christianity is the problem Calypso. How does that feel? Does that seem stupid and irrelevant? It is. But that's what you sound like when you post. Keep your religious opinions to yourself. Nobody cares to hear about them, ever.

@Darkmaidenbot: Calypso's "suggestions" are the same things he "suggests" for every problem from childhood obesity to natural disasters. He doesn't deal in solutions, he deals in promoting an ideology that seems very fluid, depending on what particular rhetorical point he's trying to make. Giving him points for at least "suggesting" a solution is like complimenting the tenets of National Socialism for at least being an ethos: it would have been better to say nothing at all.

Here's my solution: listen to the experts: social scientists, people with experience in treating mental health conditions and addiction. Get rid of prison sentences and instead mandate community service, house arrest, and treatment. Decriminalize the stuff like Portugal did; it's worked really well. Deal with the social issues that lead to addiction in the first place, like poverty and inequity.

But it's useless because most people are willfully ignorant, short-sighted, and more concerned with retribution and revenge than actually solving problems, and this is exemplified in our political arena.

All that is beyond truth but at sometimes even we have to understand that the trickle down was not responsible. All of these were not just caught up. However if the owner of Tessro, Hydar or any one of the other UPSTANDING citizens ever got caught our young people wouldn't always be the names we saw

Those arent huge revelations I could drop bombs on you

Everyone one is at fault even you J.E FUME

CAL-LY-SPYO. HAHA YOU SO WACK WORD ON FATHER EGAN

Calypso,

You might get by blaming atheism for the rampant drug abuse in this city if you were talking to newcomers with no roots in the community. However, as a person born and raised in Juneau I can tell you straight out that you are--like normal--totally full to the gills of bovine fecal matter. I recognize many of the names that have appeared in the paper in the last year relating to serious drug charges. I can tell that I am well-acquainted with many of the families of these people. I can also tell you that many of these people come from families that not only attend church on a regular basis, but make church a big part of their lives. As a consequence, your hypothesis that the "lawlessness" in Juneau is a product of atheism makes about as much sense as your other babblings.

rafromfb,

Welcome! It's always great to have another member in my fan club.

"Yup, atheism is a problem. Could very well lead to cultural rot."

Cultural rot? Like an overwhelming majority of prison inmates happen to be devout christians? You want to discuss cultural rot, let's see how the catholic church has treated its pedophile priests... send them up to Alaskan rural villages. And standby as their culture rots. You defend a religion that defends pedophilia. I'll take any attacks you send my way as an atheist. At least my conscience is clean you moron.

I just have to say as a recovered addict for over 6 years now that Juneau is in need of big help if it is ever going to fix its drug problem. First of all, not everyone that is an addict became that way by choice. There is a large group that were injured and went to a doctor trusting they were going to help and ended up on Oxycotin. Hillbilly heroin and the next thing they know, they damn near loose their life because of the horrible addiction they aquire from taking that drug. I myself was legally prescribed this drug after a major car accident and awaiting surgerys. Well long story short. I ended up a IV drug user and lost everything that was dear to me. I have to agree with LVMYKYk about tough loving your child or loved one if they are in similiar situations. Now I also can understand the mother of the informant slipping into anger for a minute, because no matter how bad her child must be, it is her child and usually these informants are dirty, pushy, addicts themselves. They befriend the person they snitch on and pretend they are loyal to them in friendship. Usually they seek out easy targets, not the main dealers, but younger safer addicts that only help out to support their own habit. This is ugly business and this particular informant seems to have targeted just that. Kids that are not the main source of narcodics in this town. So whatever on JPDs big cleaning house sweep. Dawson was a big and thank God that sick chester is off the streets! These kids that have been busted and their families should try and look at this a different way though. They are alive, they are not busted for too massive of charges. They can use this time as a rock bottom and start over. Then get the hell out of Juneau and dont come back until you have a few years at least clean. This town is very hard to get clean in. I went to Rainforrest several times. Now very nice people with big hearts run this place but the impatient time is far too short. Honestly long term treatment is what a addict needs. I myself had to try it all, 5 45 day rehabs, a methadone clinic for a few years, long term treatment and then a suboxone program for a few years. Now I am drug and alcohol free. I am grateful to be alive and thank God I wake up sober every day. It is possible only if you want it. If you have people making excuses for you or you blame the snitch, the doctor, the car that T boned ya, even God, then you will never be free. I believe that the snitch may be a dirty, weak person, but that doesnt matter in the least. To these people busted, use this as a way out. Dont blame anyone, just pick yourself up and get well. No one can do this for you. There are few answers to what Juneau can do to help. I think Suboxone works, but not for everyone. There will still be 3/4 of the fools abusing and selling it. Ruining it for the ones that really are trying. It is very sad. I honestly can say that I tried it all to get clean. The thing that worked was me. Wanting it and never stopping trying. That and getting out of Juneau to get clean. The town is so small and in order to get clean you need to remove every single friend that uses out of your life. If you dont then it is not possible. Good luck to these kids I hope this helps save their life. People this is not going to get better. Iv drug use is Russian Roulette and it seem to be a very common thing among teens in this town. So very scary. Soon they will be spreading Hep C all over. HIV too. It is not going to get better until, well until I have no idea.