Two arrested for mail with 499 methadone pills
JUNEAU EMPIRE
A 38-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were arrested today on felony drug charges after a package bound for them was intercepted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service containing 499 methadone pills, the Juneau Police Department reported.
Jonathan J. Stein and Sherrilyn N. Morrow, both Juneau residents, were each charged with two felony drug counts and face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Both were lodged in the Lemon Creek Correctional Center and being held without bail.
“(Methadone pills) are an opium based pill and they’re typically used to treat people that have heroin addictions, but the pills themselves are also very highly addictive,” said Sgt. Dave Campbell, police spokesman. “We have dealt with methadone for recreational use here in town.”
The package came from the Lower 48.
Check Sunday’s Juneau Empire for more coverage.
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November 21st, 2009 at 8:40 am
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA IDIOTS! GREAT JOB TO THE OFFICERS THAT FOUND THEM OUT.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Two more victims of the futile drug war.
Next time you want some information about drugs for a story, I don’t recommend asking Sgt. Campbell. His quote contains misinformation.
Methadone is a synthetic opioid, it’s not based on opium. It exerts its psychoactive, euphoric, and addictive effects by acting as an agonist at the mu opioid receptors within your central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Mu opioid agonist drugs are what laypeople classically refer to as narcotics or painkillers. Other drugs which act in a nearly identical manner, and can be substituted for each other in an addict to any of them, but which actually are derived from the opium latex of the Papavar somniferum plant are codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and heroin. Methadone has never been produced from opium.
Until 1914, opium and opium-derived drugs like heroin were legal and over the counter medications in the US. You could take all the heroin you wanted with you on the ferry here to Juneau from the lower 48. The pharmacy in town stocked it and let old housewives buy it like it was aspirin. Since putting these drugs under government regulation in 1914, the price in today’s dollars per dose has increased THOUSANDS OF PERCENT while the addiction rate in the American population has remained the same if not slightly INCREASED. In addition, there are now millions of people who have been fed through the prison-industrial complex and brutalized because they felt they had a right to kill some pain, or make some money selling something to someone to kill their pain.
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