Before NYS enacted its Good Samaritan law, my D was an RA at an upstate college. She was off duty one Saturday and initially planned to stay at a friend’s off campus but she didn’t feel well so she stayed in her room. About 3 AM, her room phone rang and a voice she didn’t know told her to look out the window. She did and saw a young man lying half dressed in the snow. She called campus security, grabbed a blanket and ran downstairs. She was told by the EMTs that had she not been in her room to take that call and had she not done what she did, the young man, who was heavily intoxicated, could have died. Apparently, my D had a reputation as being one of the more level headed RA’s so whoever this boy’s friends were counted on her doing the right thing. He wasn’t a resident of her dorm and when he recovered, he refused to say where he had been drinking or who had dumped his half naked body in a snow bank.
College kids can be so stupid. It’s amazing so many survive to become us.
I’m good with with good samaritan laws when it involves alcohol and pot. I doubt this kid died from either of these substances. I draw the line when it comes to hard drugs.
Well now TCU has banned the Pikes due to drug selling and drug use. Drinking and pot has always played a role on college campuses. Seems like harder drugs are creeping it’s way in.
“I’m good with with good samaritan laws when it involves alcohol and pot. I doubt this kid died from either of these substances. I draw the line when it comes to hard drugs.”
Even local communities and police stations are moving to not arresting people for things like heroin usage but instead they are looking for ways to get them help. This is coming from law enforcement officials who have seen it all and realize that arrests aren’t helpful to treating the issue and are a waste of time and money.
Arrest the dealers not the users.
Grain raiser - you’re naive if you think hard drugs are something new.
Been to many college campuses over the and the truly hard drugs are not that common on college campuses.
Been to many college campuses over the years and the truly hard drugs are not that common on schools in Texas. Pot and alcohol are by fair the stimulant of choice. I’m not saying heroin, LSD etc. is not present but it just a fraction of what most students use.
@Grainraiser Well that’s true nationally as well. It’s also worth noting that the use of hard drugs (eg meth, cocaine, heroin, etc) have decreased over time according to the [National Survey of Drug Use](National Survey on Drug Use and Health).
Good Samaritan laws aren’t going to stop drug addicts from using just as distributing naloxone (anti-overdose medication) does not encourage drug use. I seriously doubt anyone who’s ever considered using heroin decided not to because of the fear of arrest if they OD. Saving lives, even if it’s for an addict at rock bottom, should take absolute precedence over any drug laws.
Wondering how these boys feel today? Drugs aren’t that cool, is it? Wait, they all think they are adults at age of 18 and it’s party time. If they were adults at 18 why aren’t they paying for college? Paying for books, dorms so forth and so on. If they were adults and can do anything they want, why don’t they pay? Be smart don’t do the first drug.
I see no evidence in any of these articles that the kids arrested had anything to do with the death. The police evidently entered the house when they were called, and used that as an excuse to search for drugs and to arrest people who owned them or appeared to own them. (Be aware that in these circumstances police have been known to use the “adverse possession” rule to charge people who do not in fact own the drugs in question.)
Presumably the autopsy will indicate what the cause of death was. It sounds as if at this point it is simply an assumption that it was an OD.
Very sad.
"He says that Machlitt was at Lambda Chi fraternity house over the weekend and was attempting to jump from a 3rd-floor stairwell over the railing to a 2nd-floor landing when he fell and hit his head.
Captain Swanigan says alcohol appears to have been a factor."
http://www.lex18.com/story/32814434/georgetown-football-player