Submitted by GoAskAlice (not verified) on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 9:45am.
I understand that the parents of the young woman who died shortly before Christmas two years ago want to do something to rectify her life/death by having a treatment facility built near the jail, but this seems like a very VERY unwise attempt.
As "Kathy" the ex-heroin addict herself says:
"If you use in Wilmington and you get help in Wilmington, then you're just going to meet more people to get high with or you're going to meet new people to get it from."
Building a facility near the jail will just build more of a heroin community in this area. If you don't meet more contacts in the jail, just go to the treatment facility.
Treatment success is mostly dependent on the addicts want to quit. You can put treatment facilities on the corner of every block but it doesn't mean they'll work.
Ironic