I just received the posters for our next production "And Justice For All" which is a series of five one act plays dealing with social and political injustice. Last Saturday (the the horrendous wind!) many of our cast and crew gathered on Broadway in Camden for a photo which you can see here.
We purposely took this photo at the spot of the portable methadone clinic that now serves recovering heroin addicts in Camden county. Behind us in the picture is the old NY Shipyard, now South Jersey Port where the city of Camden has threatened to move a permanent methadone clinic in that will serve over 1,000 recovering addicts a day (70% of them from towns in the county, outside of Camden City). This yet another thing dumped on us in Waterfront South that no one wants near their own homes. The present site of the clinic is near Cooper Hospital and that, according to to the powers that be, is no longer the "best location" for the site. It is proper that we are doing a festival about injustice at this time. Please support and work with us to stop this ADDITIONAL injustice from being thrown onto the children and families of the redeveloping Waterfront South neighborhood. See you at the show. Art WILL save us! Heal Camden.
3 comments:
No, we certainly wouldn't want a bunch of those nasty, dirty ol' theiving, child abusing addicts DUMPED on us, near our homes and children, now would we? I mean, after all, they aren't real human beings, like us, with feelings, families, lives--so we can easily shove them away from our fair village and rest assured we have done the right thing--preserving the decent from the dregs of society. Things like addiction could NEVER happen to one of us, or to one of our precious children--noooo, that only happens to subhuman slimeballs--and we SURE don't want THEM coming HERE to get any HELP for their problem--that would just be tooooo gross!!! Shoo, scat you nasty old addicts, before I take a broom to ya!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Someone using Methadone is not a recovering addict. Sadly, this is a huge misconception that has been widely spread. Methadone is hoghly addictive and harder to withdraw from then heroin itself. The pro-methadone supporters have spent a long time marketing this practice for social acceptance and it has fooled the public for a years. This is a money making scam that feeds the addicts cravings and lines the pockets of the distributors. This is why they fight so hard to get what they want. Often going as far to pull the discrimination card as they hide behind the ADA, and it works.
These clinics and their practices are out of control as they encourage the use of this drug for many years, some for a lifetime. This is not the answer to addiction treatment and only replaces one addiction for another.
Mothers Against Medical Abuse.Org
To the first poster,
I am glad that you could crawl out of your self serving hole long enough to post a comment on this blog. It's easy to point fingers and interject you own biased interpretation of this blog. Though fact remains, that someone had thought to move a methadone clinic in Camden because it is Camden. Heck, I admit before seeing the area and meeting the people, I too would have said Methadone Clinic and Camden go great together.
I think it would take a pretty naive person to not realize that addicts are people with real problems, I know that most people in this country personally know someone who have problems with drug addiction. No one said they weren't people with problems, you apparently read into that all by yourself. It says something when you read information that really isn't there. You may think that's what was written, but when you know the author you've never met more of a caring person.
I won't even touch the facts as it comes to the clinics themselves, which was already covered beautiful by the Mother Against Medical Abuse post. Anything said on the topic would just be repetitive, though maybe that might help you understand the situation going on. But people like you may never hear the truth they usually only hear what they want to hear.
I would imagine that you (as well as any other person alive) would cringe at the thought of a clinic go up in their neighborhood. Though most likely you live in a better neighborhood and probably will never experience a clinic going up in your neighborhood, and you can safely through you sarcastic comments from the safety of you home. These people in this community do not want this in their neighborhood, but since you have no problem with that, I expect you to be at the next town hall meeting, pleading for this clinic to move in right next to you. It's easy to thrown stones at others, and quite a different thing to put your money where you mouth is. If you so strongly in what you wrote...I expect you to move next to this clinic wherever it may be.
I consider myself to be a good upstanding citizen and a good person. Yet I can admit, that I wouldn't want to be around the clinic...and it shouldn't be placed in Camden just because it is Camden. When a community wants to shrug off the bad image that is associated with them, and revive itself then they should.
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