Like a brief paragraph in a book, Herald reporter Jake Goldstein-Street’s fentanyl article is only a glance into the lives of people with addictive personalities (“Everett mother’s fentanyl overdose death charged as homicide,” The Herald, March 8).
Before you judge them, remember the urge that compels you to review social media posts while you are driving, behavior that has killed hundreds of people across the country each year. Or the agitation when the internet or television goes down. Yes, it’s the same thing. Just not as amplified.
No doubt the drug dealers are partly to blame. Supply and demand. Recent court decisions on possession haven’t helped either. I agree with the new law prosecuting dealers for the deaths resulting from their actions. It holds them accountable for a while. It’s certainly not a deterrence. Someone has already taken her place.
The woman who died should not be thought of as a statistic. She was someone’s daughter, sister, cousin who no doubt hoped for better days.
Todd Olmsted~Fredrickson
Monroe
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