Governor Chris Christi has been chasing this national emergency while Donald Trump was still refusing to run for President. It is time to allow him the emergency status he needs to finish the job!
SIGN IT, DONALD!
May 5, 2013
By Brian Amaral
South Brunswick – Police (click here) won't charge a man who overdosed on heroin or his friend who reported his medical emergency, which happened the same day that Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill into law providing immunity in cases like theirs.
South Brunswick Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jim Ryan said that a woman reported her friend was overdosing on heroin in a Burger King parking lot on Route 1 Thursday night. Police arrived and performed CPR on the man; paramedics came and were able to revive him. He is listed in fair condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
"We are aware of the law," Ryan said. "It's not our practice to charge people (in these situations.) We’re going to let him get the treatment he needs."...
Governor Christi's priorities for his commission is spot on. There need to be many, many more mental health rehabilitation beds, the medications have to be available in the way people can afford them and the people need treatment and rehabilitation. The police also need sufficient supplies of "naloxone" (generic name). It is time to save the lives of Americans!
April 29, 2017
By Susan K. Livio
Trenton — A rare compromise (click here) between the governor’s office and Democratic senators today revived the "Good Samaritan" bill that allows people to call 911 to report someone had overdosed on drugs without the fear of getting themselves arrested for drug possession.
Governor Christi's priorities for his commission is spot on. There need to be many, many more mental health rehabilitation beds, the medications have to be available in the way people can afford them and the people need treatment and rehabilitation. The police also need sufficient supplies of "naloxone" (generic name). It is time to save the lives of Americans!
April 29, 2017
By Susan K. Livio
Trenton — A rare compromise (click here) between the governor’s office and Democratic senators today revived the "Good Samaritan" bill that allows people to call 911 to report someone had overdosed on drugs without the fear of getting themselves arrested for drug possession.
The compromise — taking portions of the Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act that Gov. Chris Christie rejected last fall and melding it with a related bill — was approved by the Senate in a swift emergency 24-1. Hours later the Assembly passed it, 68-2.
After the Senate vote, more than three dozen people who had fought for the bill — relatives of people who overdosed — applauded and wept....
I don't want to hear the wackos from the right complaining how just after a person is saved by the police with Narcan, they have to turn around and go back to do it again.
I don't know where such statements come from and I don't want to know. They are completely ignorant of the facts. Jerks!
