Feedback On Petition: Why People Will Not Sign It...

I wanted to share this here because these reasons signify that people need to be educated on drug use and this heroin epidemic. I feel these responses came from a certain Facebook Group whom some of us know really well. Here is some of the feedback I am reading, hearing and getting on why people won't sign our petition:

• You can't put a treatment center in the middle of a heroin central
• We need the money spent on the children in schools, not for the drug addicted
• We need aggressive action into stopping it not a rehab
• Provide a cost assessment for this treatment center first. We who don't have a drug problem with drugs have a problem with what our money is used for
• Stop pacifying the addicts at the taxpayer's expense
• I'm tired of working 40+ hours a week and my tax money going for able-bodied drug users
• What is the % of the success of these facilities?
• This will only work for those who want to get clean. People who OD don't want to get clean.
• I don't want my kids playing ball at Oatesdale Park next to that place.
• What about these places? (Lists lots of resources) How many more resources to facilities do you people need?
• Help the kids not the people who choose to destroy there lives. If kicking a habit and being clean is the result someone is looking for they will make a way. But I say no! Not here in town where that funding could be used in countless other places
• The money and time need to be spent to stop the drugs coming in!
• if the abusers were to be jailed and fined when caught just like a drunk driver is it may make the abuser think twice next time. Abusers know exactly what they are doing and getting themselves into - let them fend for themselves!
• A junkie is a junkie they make a choice to shoot up
• child molesters can't help themselves either they don't build treatment facilities for them. Drugs and using them is a choice
• It's not my responsibility to pay for someone's stupid mistake
• People need to educate themselves on raising their children better

So, after reading these what do you think? I honestly feel that from reading these that we definitely need some public education and awareness.

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