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To: Ron who wrote (265441)	11/30/2014 11:24:55 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540773

Be careful out there.... Heroin Takes Over a House, and Mom nytimes.com excerpt: A family had moved there in 2009. A father, a mother and three teenagers: two girls and a boy. Soon, the husband was gone. The children, gone. The woman stayed — or more accurately, a jittery version of the busy, gregarious housewife with the day job and the quick laugh. [....] Ms. Sperring’s fall from life as a suburban mom and a wife played out with dizzying speed. By the end, her modest condominium was a locus for a borough’s ravenous heroin demand. Dealers set up there; Staten Island’s bands of addicts, linked by word of mouth and cellphone connections, descended en masse; the police followed. “What possessed me? I don’t know,” Ms. Sperring, now 45, said in one of several interviews from the Rikers Island jail complex. She was describing the first time she took heroin. “I just wanted to see what it was like. Which is stupid, I know.” She openly acknowledges that after that first experience, she and others flooded her quiet corner of Staten Island with drugs and interloping addicts. She also suggested, as others have in recent months, that heroin, once thought of as a scourge of days past, is back, everywhere. Those touched by her descent were also remarkably open to recalling it — her ex-husband, the police officers who took her in, even her daughter. The drug washed over the borough in the wake of law enforcement crackdowns on painkillers, replacing oxycodone as the intoxicant of choice for the bored and restless. Elected officials characterized heroin’s hold on Staten Island as an epidemic, with the borough second only to the Bronx in per capita deaths from heroin overdoses. To witness what happened in 19 Wood Court, to grasp the mix of temptation, chance and dark opportunity that took place there, is to see how heroin addiction can metastasize and ruin the many lives it touches. The drug has been found in all walks of life on the island, but Ms. Sperring’s addiction offers a vivid, telling example of the blight, one that drove away her family and poisoned her neighborhood. “People have this misconception that you have to look a certain way,” she said. “There’s not a face of heroin.”

To: Ron who wrote (265441)	11/30/2014 1:37:51 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540773

He could find the cure for cancer and it still wouldn't be good enough for the R's and the right wing.