A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

[Esmeralda]

For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents.

Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse the adults in her house.

Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.

Also inside the home were three other children — ages 5 years, 3 years and 9 months.

The children were unharmed but still taken to a hospital to be checked out, then placed with the county’s department of children, youth and families.

The case cast a light on Allegheny County’s epidemic of drug overdoses — and their impact on families.
A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

Where are you at that you have 3 children and do this crap? Dealing needs to be considered murder.

I'm sorry, but this sound pretty dumb for a 7 year old. It took her 2 days to alert anyone? A 4 or 5 year old I could see, but 7?

 

[Esmeralda]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

 

[Moonglow]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

Pot is not a drug....Heroin is..Pot is a natural and not chemically increased in potency, like heroin...There is a difference..

Pot is a THC laden substance. It is essentially a drug. It can cause lifelong, life-altering anxiety and depression issues, especially in younger, developing brains. People who endorse it as benign in spite of its inherent dangers are irresponsibly reckless and ignorant.

Yea, just like religion....it has that sticky resin that causes life long changes to a persons character...

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

Pot is not a drug....Heroin is..Pot is a natural and not chemically increased in potency, like heroin...There is a difference..

Pot is a THC laden substance. It is essentially a drug. It can cause lifelong, life-altering anxiety and depression issues, especially in younger, developing brains. People who endorse it as benign in spite of its inherent dangers are irresponsibly reckless and ignorant.

Yea, just like religion....it has that sticky resin that causes life long changes to a persons character...

OK, so you're of the ignorant Ilk. Willfully.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Disgusting druggies.

 

[Disir]

For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents.

Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse the adults in her house.

Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.

Also inside the home were three other children — ages 5 years, 3 years and 9 months.

The children were unharmed but still taken to a hospital to be checked out, then placed with the county’s department of children, youth and families.

The case cast a light on Allegheny County’s epidemic of drug overdoses — and their impact on families.
A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

Where are you at that you have 3 children and do this crap? Dealing needs to be considered murder.

I'm sorry, but this sound pretty dumb for a 7 year old. It took her 2 days to alert anyone? A 4 or 5 year old I could see, but 7?

Unless it was completely normal for her parents to be passed out at any given time (sleeping) AND she had been told by her parents not to say anything to anyone about what happens inside the house. Likely because the mom's sister and mother had been trying to obtain custody. At some point in that 2 day period it became not normal. The only for sure routine the 7 year old had was school.

 

[Disir]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

I don't know of any locked down rehabs. Secondly, it's all fun and games while you are getting clean but when you walk out the door, of either prison or a rehab, you are dealing with the real world again.

 

[Esmeralda]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

I don't know of any locked down rehabs. Secondly, it's all fun and games while you are getting clean but when you walk out the door, of either prison or a rehab, you are dealing with the real world again.

We should not be turning drug addicts into ex-cons. I agree there are not appropriate facilities as far as rehabs that lock people in. We need to put them into practice. It could be like a prison as far as locking them in, but instead of them being locked up with rapists and murderers, they would be locked up with the non-violent. There would be programs in this kind of place to get them on a new track as far as life skills w/o drug addiction.

 

[Esmeralda]

For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents.

Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse the adults in her house.

Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.

Also inside the home were three other children — ages 5 years, 3 years and 9 months.

The children were unharmed but still taken to a hospital to be checked out, then placed with the county’s department of children, youth and families.

The case cast a light on Allegheny County’s epidemic of drug overdoses — and their impact on families.
A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

Where are you at that you have 3 children and do this crap? Dealing needs to be considered murder.

I'm sorry, but this sound pretty dumb for a 7 year old. It took her 2 days to alert anyone? A 4 or 5 year old I could see, but 7?

Unless it was completely normal for her parents to be passed out at any given time (sleeping) AND she had been told by her parents not to say anything to anyone about what happens inside the house. Likely because the mom's sister and mother had been trying to obtain custody. At some point in that 2 day period it became not normal. The only for sure routine the 7 year old had was school.

She might be backward because of the environment in which she is being raised.

 

[Disir]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

Decriminalization works splendidly well when it is part of a harm reduction policy with small amounts of whatever drug. You don't want to spend all of the money on small time folks. Nail the ones with larger amounts and those that cross state lines. Where they screwed up is with legalization and the level of BS they sold to get marijuana done. Decriminalization has a vastly different outcome than legalization.

Heroin became a big issue (again) when people were able to snort it. That is how you start off and then you move to shooting it up.

It took some 30 years for msm to recognize that meth is an issue. This is a country that moves really slow.

 

[esthermoon]

For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents.

Dutifully, she got dressed in their apartment outside Pittsburgh on Monday morning and went to school, keeping her worries to herself. But on the bus ride home, McKeesport, Pa., police say, she told the driver she’d been unable to rouse the adults in her house.

Inside the home, authorities found the bodies of Christopher Dilly, 26, and Jessica Lally, 25, dead of suspected drug overdoses, according to police.

Also inside the home were three other children — ages 5 years, 3 years and 9 months.

The children were unharmed but still taken to a hospital to be checked out, then placed with the county’s department of children, youth and families.

The case cast a light on Allegheny County’s epidemic of drug overdoses — and their impact on families.
A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home.

Where are you at that you have 3 children and do this crap? Dealing needs to be considered murder.

Very sad. I imagine it went something like this:

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I don't understand why the person who took this video didn't do anything but filming....
to me that's incredible... O_O

 

[PK1]

Good riddance. People like this shouldn't have kids.
Though, the problem isn't drugs, but stupid people.

A practical example for abortion ... if Planned Parenthood counseling does not work.
The kids wind up suffering.

 

[Disir]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

I don't know of any locked down rehabs. Secondly, it's all fun and games while you are getting clean but when you walk out the door, of either prison or a rehab, you are dealing with the real world again.

We should not be turning drug addicts into ex-cons. I agree there are not appropriate facilities as far as rehabs that lock people in. We need to put them into practice. It could be like a prison as far as locking them in, but instead of them being locked up with rapists and murderers, they would be locked up with the non-violent. There would be programs in this kind of place to get them on a new track as far as life skills w/o drug addiction.

Since many of them fly under the radar but are getting popped for theft sometimes that is not an option. Secondly, since much of rehabilitation will be dependent on some form of government funding which type of treatment works best for what? Well, we don't know because there is no requirement to keep records beyond 3 months which of course means there are a lot of "successful" types of treatments. So, without that requirement to collect data we have a billion dollar industry................and a lot of failure. Right now, there is no difference between prison with your free AA/NA meetings or whatever little program you have going on in prisons and forcing people into a rehab. Lastly, you have to want to quit.

People, places, things......

 

[Esmeralda]

As long as politicians continue to push for decriminalization -- starting with pot -- the message sent is that recreational drug use is OK.
This story and the heroin epidemic in middle America are the inevitable result.

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

I don't know of any locked down rehabs. Secondly, it's all fun and games while you are getting clean but when you walk out the door, of either prison or a rehab, you are dealing with the real world again.

We should not be turning drug addicts into ex-cons. I agree there are not appropriate facilities as far as rehabs that lock people in. We need to put them into practice. It could be like a prison as far as locking them in, but instead of them being locked up with rapists and murderers, they would be locked up with the non-violent. There would be programs in this kind of place to get them on a new track as far as life skills w/o drug addiction.

Since many of them fly under the radar but are getting popped for theft sometimes that is not an option. Secondly, since much of rehabilitation will be dependent on some form of government funding which type of treatment works best for what? Well, we don't know because there is no requirement to keep records beyond 3 months which of course means there are a lot of "successful" types of treatments. So, without that requirement to collect data we have a billion dollar industry................and a lot of failure. Right now, there is no difference between prison with your free AA/NA meetings or whatever little program you have going on in prisons and forcing people into a rehab. Lastly, you have to want to quit.

People, places, things......

Government funding: we are already paying for them to be in prison. So government funding is not an issue. We should set up workshops in these facilities for them to learn a trade and they could sell the products to help pay for their upkeep there.

Prison is a WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT than a rehab situation. In a rehabilitation place you are not living among a lot of violent offenders. What if it was your son? Would you want him in a purely rehab environment or in a prison with violent offenders? Seriously? You think there's no difference?

 

[tycho1572]

 

[Conservative65]

Good riddance. People like this shouldn't have kids.
Though, the problem isn't drugs, but stupid people.

A practical example for abortion ... if Planned Parenthood counseling does not work.
The kids wind up suffering.

More like a practical example for sterilization.

 

[Conservative65]

These people didn't die of a pot overdose. Nobody does. And I'm okay with recreational drug use if children aren't involved and the drug is not known to make people excessively violent. It doesn't mean it's good; but govt. needs to protect freedom, not restrict it.

Agree. People don't die from pot. But using drugs should not involve a prison sentence. It should involve people being made to stay in rehab places until they are clean: NOT PRISON.

I don't know of any locked down rehabs. Secondly, it's all fun and games while you are getting clean but when you walk out the door, of either prison or a rehab, you are dealing with the real world again.

We should not be turning drug addicts into ex-cons. I agree there are not appropriate facilities as far as rehabs that lock people in. We need to put them into practice. It could be like a prison as far as locking them in, but instead of them being locked up with rapists and murderers, they would be locked up with the non-violent. There would be programs in this kind of place to get them on a new track as far as life skills w/o drug addiction.

Since many of them fly under the radar but are getting popped for theft sometimes that is not an option. Secondly, since much of rehabilitation will be dependent on some form of government funding which type of treatment works best for what? Well, we don't know because there is no requirement to keep records beyond 3 months which of course means there are a lot of "successful" types of treatments. So, without that requirement to collect data we have a billion dollar industry................and a lot of failure. Right now, there is no difference between prison with your free AA/NA meetings or whatever little program you have going on in prisons and forcing people into a rehab. Lastly, you have to want to quit.

People, places, things......

Government funding: we are already paying for them to be in prison. So government funding is not an issue. We should set up workshops in these facilities for them to learn a trade and they could sell the products to help pay for their upkeep there.

Prison is a WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT than a rehab situation. In a rehabilitation place you are not living among a lot of violent offenders. What if it was your son? Would you want him in a purely rehab environment or in a prison with violent offenders? Seriously? You think there's no difference?

People that commit crimes need to be in prison. If they want rehab, let them pay for it. In reality, the only time rehab can take place is when the one needing it makes the decision to do it. You and I can't make someone rehabilitate that doesn't want to do so no matter what we do.

If they get through the rehab and show that it has lasting effects, refund the money but have them invest in it first.

 

[PK1]

Good riddance. People like this shouldn't have kids.
Though, the problem isn't drugs, but stupid people.

A practical example for abortion ... if Planned Parenthood counseling does not work.
The kids wind up suffering.

More like a practical example for sterilization.

Only if drug rehab does not work.

 

[Conservative65]

Good riddance. People like this shouldn't have kids.
Though, the problem isn't drugs, but stupid people.

A practical example for abortion ... if Planned Parenthood counseling does not work.
The kids wind up suffering.

More like a practical example for sterilization.

Only if drug rehab does not work.

Who pays for the rehab?

 

[PK1]

Good riddance. People like this shouldn't have kids.
Though, the problem isn't drugs, but stupid people.

A practical example for abortion ... if Planned Parenthood counseling does not work.
The kids wind up suffering.

More like a practical example for sterilization.

Only if drug rehab does not work.

Who pays for the rehab?

Relatives.