Tanya Smith, medical amnesty laws: States are saving the lives of drug users.

Tanya Smith, medical amnesty laws: States are saving the lives of drug users.: Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, Taylor, dead of a drug overdose. On the night of her death, Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia. When Taylor began struggling to breathe, her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police. They tried to revive her themselves by throwing her in a cold shower. When Taylor died, they dumped her body in a roadside ditch near a trailer and fled. It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.

After her daughter’s death, Smith fought hard to pass a new law to address situations like this, in which scared witnesses don’t call for help because of the specter of drugs. The resulting 911 Medical Amnesty Law, which Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed last month, encourages people to seek help for an overdose by granting limited immunity from some drug charges.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws. But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook. By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection. For example, in Georgia, a person can be charged with drug trafficking if he possesses 4 or more grams of heroin or 28 or more grams of cocaine. The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic. In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts. In Florida, law enforcement even spearheaded the campaign for medical amnesty in 2012. Detective Gary Martin of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office explains, “When most people witness an overdose, they’ll try all kinds of bizarre, dangerous ways to revive a person based off things they see on TV. We want them to call 911.”

Georgia’s new law also expands access to naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an overdose. (It works like the EpiPen.) Paramedics have used naloxone for decades; now the idea is to put it in the hands of laypeople by shielding them from civil liability if they give naloxone to an overdose victim and something goes wrong. (That’s rare.) Thanks in part to liability protections in 911 medical amnesty laws, more than 10,000 laypeople across the country have now used it to reverse overdoses.

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died, naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  

(Naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)

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The section that stands out to me:

{The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws. But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook. By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection.}

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{The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic.}

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{In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.}

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died,
 (naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)
 naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  

 On the night of her death, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor,
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
 dead of a drug overdose.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

 On the night of her death, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died,
 (naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)
 naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  


It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.  
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

After her daughter’s death, Smith fought hard to pass a new law to address situations like this, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
in which scared witnesses don’t call for help because of the specter of drugs. 

The resulting 911 Medical Amnesty Law, which Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed last month, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
encourages people to seek help for an overdose by granting limited immunity from some drug charges.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
police officers from enforcing drug laws.  

 By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection. 

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
dead of a drug overdose.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

 On the night of her death, 

(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws.  

By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection.

On the night of her death, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
dead of a drug overdose.

It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

Nor is methamphetamine a solid narcotic.
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
dead of a drug overdose.

On the night of her death, 
It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.



When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

When Taylor died, 
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
they dumped her body in a roadside ditch near a trailer and fled. 

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DRUG DEALERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

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GLENN MEMORIAL 

UNITED(?)METHODIST(?)CHURCH

Upcoming Events

Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night

May 31, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Ward Hall

All youth and parents are invited to this program.
Drug overdoses have overtaken automobile accidents as the leading cause of
 ?accidental? 
death in the United States.
Georgia Overdose Prevention, a group of parents, health care professionals and friends who have been personally affected by drug addiction and overdose will discuss their experiences with the loss of their loved one, the new GA Medical Amnesty Law, recovery and hope. Dinner is provided.

REALITY

IS A 

CREATION 

OF OUR 

EXCESSES.
~(EMIL CIORAN)~

CHANGED MY MIND!

LUMP PREACHERS IN WITH THEM...

MOST ESPECIALLY 

G. ROBERT GARY, SR. ThD,

THEN DRUG DEALERS ARE THE 

PROBLEMS.

Bob Gary Th.D, Member AAPC Specialties: Individuals, Couples, Families, Groups, Church/Organizational Consultant, Pastoral Consultant, Clergy Sexual Abuse, Grief, Transitions, Depression Contact Information: 404-636-1457 ext. 425 bgary@cccgeorgia.org Counseling Centers: CCCG Main Office – Decatur (Decatur, GA)

HOW DOES ONE SELL A DRUG TO AN

 AUDIENCE THAT HAS ALREADY BOUGHT 

IT..?

CAIN IN THE UNITED STATES

Did life not begin the day we all be 
"CAIN" 
witness to death however briefly 
"ABEL" 
a witness to life..?

ISIS controls 'everything' in ancient city of Palmyra - CNN.com

"The world does not care about us.  

All they are interested in is the stones of ancient Palmyra."

~(26-Year-Old Palmyra Resident)~

But Palmyra,

which is also known as Tadmur, isn't just a matter of history. Today, it's also home to tens of thousands of people -- many of whom, if they haven't already fled, cower in fear they'll meet the same grisly fate of so many others conquered by ISIS.

 

They're people like the 26-year-old who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. He's huddled in a house with 50 people, among them his family members and neighbors who have lost their own homes, and worried that food will run out while his city is under curfew. 

 

After at least 100 Syrian soldiers died in fighting overnight, Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes Thursday in and around Palmyra, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. But there's no indication when, or if, Syrian ground forces will try to take back the city. Nor is there a sense that any of the others fighting ISIS, like the United States, will come to the rescue.

 



 

"They are everywhere."

~(26-Year-Old Palmyra Resident)~

 

ISIS controls 'everything' in ancient city of Palmyra - CNN.com:  That is the stark observation about ISIS fighters in Palmyra from a 26-year-old resident there, detailing the terrorist group's swift, destructive takeover of yet another city in its quest to brutally expand its caliphate.

 

This capture threatens a UNESCO World Heritage Site described as having "stood at the crossroads of several civilizations," with its art and architecture mixing Greek, Roman and Persian influences, according to that U.N. group. U.N. and Syrian officials have expressed fears that ISIS plans to destroy the ruins, just as it flattened the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud and smashed statues in Iraq's Mosul Museum.

 

 

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I inverted the order of these two sections trying to make a point. 

 

Calling upon me the multitudes, maybe the followings will help..?

 

"THOSE WITH A SURPLUS ARE BETTER ABLE CONTROLLING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES.  THOSE WITHOUT ARE CONTROLED BY THEM.  ONE IS NOT ALWAYS "ABEL" EXERCISING GOOD JUDGEMENT."

~(6!9)~

 

Not one hundred percent sure  Henry Ford is the one I've just quoted above.  However, not important as I have altered one word I'm believing better explains the world of my understanding as seen from an

(ad)vantage point

currently been ...fortunate(?)privileged(?)givened(?)spoiled...leisurely enabled

to enjoy..? 

 

In other words,  you are going to need me explaining this to you in person; me needing to know more about you being just as important as you knowing more about me. This is known as pragmatic competence; the ability understanding another's language, of which, history and context plays an important role.

 

indeteminacy:

 

In any natural language, the instability of meaning, the uncertainty of reference, and the variations in interpretations of grammatical forms and categories.

 

As David A. Swinney has observed, "Indeterminacy exists at essentially every descriptive level of word, sentence, and discourse analysis"

(Understanding Word and Sentence, 1991).

And  any form of manipulation and deception, inopportunity, explaining myself

can easily tells me just as much, if not more, about you..?

 

 

"You don't know me!"

 

 

Of course,

 

"That's just your opinion!"

 

without all the evidence, these conclusions of mine will correctly be dismissed as conjectures.

 

"I'm not going to hear it!"

 

And there will be nothing I can do or say about it..?

 

 

Jesus Predicts His Death

(HE SPOKE PLAINLY ABOUT THIS)

 

MARK 8:

31He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

 

The Way of the Cross

 

34Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.35For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?37Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?38If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

 

 

 

 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

~(MARK 9:!)~

 



 

WHAT"S THE DEAL WITH THE CRAZY GUY ON MASON MILL ROAD: TIM TEBOW'S RESTRAINING ORDER..?

 OVERHEARD ON REDDIT

[–]BATHTUBSURFER 

2 points 25 days ago 

I am not a Tim Tebow fan at all but someone needs to tell Tim to get a restraining order against this guy....not safe.

[–]SimplyJim 

1 point an hour ago 

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

  

HE'S A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER... 

AGAIN! 

I'M SURE...

 HE'S STILL ABLE DEFENDING HIMSELF QUITE WELL AGAINST A FIFTY-THREE YEAR OLD HEARING IMPAIRED CRACKHEAD!

The reason I'm so fixated on our Miracle Baby Tebow: 

because there is nothing any more special about his mother than my mother except for his mother getting ?exactly? what she was wanting; a healthy baby football player more likely than another minister!

"Is it wrong that I don't want my son to be gay," 

said my mother crying years later 

as the two of us drove from Prescott, Arkansas to Little Rock for a neice wedding; 

having chanced for the second time getting arrested flying home with the crystal meths for these two weddings.

"No Mother. It's not...WRONG... that you don't want your son to be gay. 

But you've known since I was twenty-three; 

(forty-seven at the time) 

GET OVER IT!"

Until our... MIRACLE BABY TEBOW... settles down and starts breeding more PRO-LIFES, I'm not convinced, although believe most unlikely, he's not gay..? Can you just imagine what it might be like, trying to come out of the closet as a young gay man having a mother like his having publically capitalized on their story of her (Pro-choice) pregnancy with... HIM ...before the whole wide world..?

Had Tim been born into a Catholic family instead of a Baptist family, would not have surprised me Tim becoming a priest instead of a football player.

Though the main purpose of the Westbore Baptist Church's Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists. The WBC states that

...their preachers have shirked their responsibility to tell people the truth about sin, and instead lie to them about what the Lord their God doth require of them. If these lying, false prophets told people the truth about what God says regarding those who suffer sin upon their neighbor (Lev. 19:17–18), there wouldn't be any butts in the seats when the plate got passed. These preachers are not preachers of righteousness, they are teachers having itching ears (2Tim 4:3), and they absolutely count on the abysmal bible illiteracy of their parishioners ... "Priests rape boys" is indeed an air-tight, three word case against all of the mainline "christian" churches – their preachers and members, without exception. They are all going to Hell!

So...there is some truth to the title of this WBC's statement about the Catholic Church.

And I personally know for a fact, our Methodists, definitely do have itching ears.  Having been raised as a Methodist the first eighteen years of my life, my mother still living in that same house this small Southern Arkansan town of Prescott; still consider myself to be "Methodist Fag" although radical atheist as an adult.  

That child is still there within me; and forever will go no where else..? 

Although Timothy Tebow homeschooled by missionaries, I'm sure if there's anything Tim knows better than football, it would be the lessons needing to be learned from our bible stories: 

• that his life has indeed been blessed; 
• that life is not the game of football in fact the game itself;
• that God does love playing this game, his specialty being the curve ball; 
• that this curve ball could well indeed be with his first child.

That family of HIS definitely due a major corrective with their inexcussable misuse of survivor's bias and confirmation bias...CONGENIALITY BIASES... to their advantage.

Besides, having myself never had vaginal intercourse with a woman, technically, even I'm still a virgin at the age of fifty-three; pragmatic competence being the actual game here.

   

  

You know what? 

Seeing no end to this...

and 

needing to get off the computer...

maybe 

Tim Tebow should... 

take out a restraining order against me..?

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"I can of my own self do nothing: as I sense, I judge: and my judgement is just; not because I seek my own will but the will of thy collective unconscienousness

 which cometh before us."

JOHN 5:30 

~(Simply Jim's Revised Version)~

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It's not enough to be busy;
so are the ants.

The question is:
what are we being busy about?

ELANA PARENT: The race to replace Jason Carter | News Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta

  

The race to replace Jason Carter | News Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta: Last November, Georgia Democrats rejoiced when state Sen. Jason Carter, D-Decatur, launched his 2014 gubernatorial campaign. Most political conversations have since revolved around whether or not the Candler Park resident can unseat Gov. Nathan Deal. But win or lose, Carter's political gamble means the Democratic-leaning district he's represented for the past four years is now up for grabs.

In the weeks after Carter's announcement, Democratic candidates Elena Parent and Kyle Williams decided to run for the lawmaker's DeKalb seat that spans from Buford Highway to the north, Candler Park to the west, East Lake to the south, and Decatur to the east. The two political hopefuls are now mired in one of the state's closest races.

On May 20, voters will decide which Democrat will be on the November ticket against Republican mortgage banker Greg Williams. And considering nearly three-quarters of the DeKalb County district's voters cast Democratic ballots in 2012, the odds are that whoever wins the primary will ultimately replace Carter.

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Gay candidate Kyle Williams in heated race with Elena Parent for Ga. senate seat

 The race to replace state Sen. Jason Carter for the District 42 seat has become a bit of a bumpy one in recent weeks. The two Democratic candidates, Kyle Williams, an attorney from Decatur who also chairs the Decatur Education Foundation, and Elena Parent, executive director of Georgia Watch and a former state representative (2010-2012), are in a battle to paint themselves as more progressive than the other.

The first openly gay person elected to the state legislature, state Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), has endorsed Parent over Williams while Williams has picked up endorsements from gay groups Georgia Equality and the national Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

A recent story in the conservative blog Peach Pundit outlined how the race has taken a somewhat nasty turn, with the Parent campaign in a push poll telling voters Williams accepted money from an organization that supports such U.S. Senators as Republican John McCain. In reality, in 2009 the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Williams in his non-partisan and unsuccessful bid for the Decatur City Commission. Williams also received the endorsement of the Stonewall Democrats.

On the other hand, Williams’ campaign accused Parent of attending a Tea Party conference while she was a state representative. Her explanation was that she was there to “spy” on the organization on behalf of the AFL-CIO and other Democrats, including state Sen. Nan Orrock.

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Being honest,

 I was completely clueless about the election to replace Jason Carter in the Georgia Senate, about Elena Parent,  and even about her gay opponent Kyle Williams;  until after having had the opportunity meeting Elena in person this pass Sunday afternoon at a neighborhood picnic held by the Mason Mill Civic Association.  She had been invited by MMCA's President Mary Hinkel to speak about the re-zoning/cityhood issue our neighborhood is currently facing; an issue I personally could not care less about.

 State Senator Elena Parent was elected to the State Sen-ate in 2014. She represents District 42, which includes por-tions of central and north DeKalb County.

Sen. Parent is member of the Government Oversight, Judi-ciary Non-Civil, Science and Technology, and Special Judici-ary committees.

Senator Parent previously served as the State Representa-tive for District 81 in DeKalb County in 2011 and 2012. Senator Parent then continued her public service as the Executive Director of Georgia Watch, the state’s leading consumer rights non-profit.

Senator Parent began her career as a litigation attorney at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP. She is active in her com-munity and has served on the Board of Directors of the At-lanta 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer and the Foundation Board of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. She is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Recently, Senator Parent was listed in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Who's Who Sustainability” feature for her lead-ership on energy and environmental policy issues. In 2011, she was the recipient of two prestigious awards in recogni-tion of her legislative accomplishments: the Fulton County Daily Report’s “On the Rise” and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40”. She was also named a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2013.

Senator Parent traces her core beliefs – the importance of family and making the community a better place for all - to her upbringing in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol where her parents stressed the importance of faith and public service.

Senator Parent is married to Briley Brisendine and they be-came proud parents with the birth of their son, Brooks, in February 2010. Their second son, Reid, was born in Decem-ber 2012. They are members of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta.

Although we spoke only briefly, after me having introduced myself to her as "THAT" mentally disturbed person living in the house with all the signs and inflatable in the front yard, could not help but be impressed with our new 

State Senator Elena Parent.

Had to learn more about her.

Now I can't help but wonder for whom I would have voted?

Maybe I already have..?

After voting for Jason Carter,  

all I needed to see the rest of the way down the ballot before casting my vote:

DEMOCRAT.   

If I know nothing about the candidates, that's automatically my default vote.

Then again, I only voted for Jason Carter because I knew his grandfather was Democrat; not because I knew anything about Jason Carter.

Would never vote for a Republican; not even a Log Cabin Republican.  But Kyle Williams having been endorsed by our Log Cabin Republicans can be an important clue.

But it relative to the other candidates.

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