29.08.2012
Last Monday, lawmakers of California adopted so called Drug Overdose Survivors allowance bill. It stipulates that henceforth all overdose survivors and all those who applied first aid to them will be free of charges with drug storage, drug use and personal possession of drugs.
This statistics only confirms the necessity of this initiative: more than 10 people die daily due to alcohol and drugs overdose. In many cases, they die due to the fact that the victims of overdose or people around them don’t call ambulance or police because they are afraid to be arrested for drug storage and transportation.
“Of course, it doesn’t reduce their guilt; however, when we turn a blind eye to a number of a person’s faults, we can greatly succeed”, Donald Wagner, an advocate of the bill, said.
It’s noteworthy that such a document, also known as the Good Samaritan law, has already come into force in a number of other states and it is functioning effectively.
