Follow @csteditorials Prosecutors across the nation have begun charging people with murder if they shared illegal drugs such as heroin with a friend or family member who died as a result. Now there’s a push to do the same in Illinois but, like the failed war on drugs, it risks making a bad situation worse. The more people are hesitant to call 911 in an overdose situation because they fear arrest, the more people will die. Illinois would be wise to stick with its current policy, which is to target actual drug dealers in cases when somebody dies of an overdose — but not the other addicts in the room. That’s the policy, shaped by real-world police experience,...
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