“July, 4 2013 was the first anniversary of my son’s death. My son was a vibrant, well-educated, working professional in New York City. We know that he was in a crisis situation. We know that he could not present himself to the emergency room without breaking his probation. We know that the state’s 911 Good Samaritan Law wouldn’t have protected him because he was already involved with the criminal justice system. On the day he died, he didn’t go to the hospital for a relapse as we practiced time and time again; he did not call 911 as he had before. He passed away in his home in Manhattan, even though he lived one block from Lenox Hill Hospital.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-pawlowski/drug-courts-reform_b_3671505.html
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