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The Department of Health (and Mental Hygiene) and NYPD are considering the possibility that the same heroin may have killed six New Yorkers over the past week and a half. The deaths have been concentrated in downtown Manhattan, with people discovering overdose victims since last week:
Wednesday (8/10): 24 year-old man in his Avenue B apartmentThe police think the heroin may have been laced with an anesthetic, and both the DoH and NYPD are trying to remind the public that doing any kind of drugs, whether "pure" or adulterated, can lead to death. The last time some bad heroin killed a number of people was in 1991, with 12 deaths and 100 poisonings in the NYC metro area. Some sources say there are more deaths to be linked. If anything, it's giving the East Village and Lower East Side that gritty burnishment as a drug haven once again; the Daily News reports that the $15 bag of "Eden" is popular.
Friday: Two 18 year-old girls on East Houston Street (pictured)
Friday: 25 year-old man on roof of East 7th Street apartment building
Saturday: Homeless man in portable toilet at Pier 54
Monday: 42 year-old homeless man in a mini storage facility on Spring Street
The Department of Health had some contact information: Poision Control is (800) 222-1222 or (212) POISONS; Harm Reduction Coalition (for drug treatment) is at (212) 213-6376 and www.harmreduction.org; and LIFENET (for help facing drug abuse) is at (800) LIFENET (1-800-543-3638). The NYPD says they will concentrate on stopping street sales of heroin and they are looking for tips and information related to the deaths - call (800) 577-TIPS.
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Hey, there's an apartment open on Avenue B!
Hey, check this out...google lastnightsparty + mellie, click on the cached version of the pinup page (which of course is almost explicit), and scroll over the hole where the mellie pic apparently was. read the flash caption.
Janine your ticket to Hell has been issued and your flight is ready for departure.
what does the flash caption say? i can't find it.
btw, am i alone in getting the feeling that the evening wasn't so innocent as the men describe it as being? two men in their forties, two women in their early twenties, a suitcase, they'd only known each other a month and yet she calls him at 10:00 a.m. after being out for the entire night? it doesn't add up.
Add these people to the roster of deaths due in part to the U.S.S.A's war on drugs. Outlawing this victimless act leads to restricted drug supplies available only through channels of dubious origin.
Take this as a plea to decriminalize drug usage, and stop the deaths caused by gang turf wars, DEA raids, overzealous cops, desperate stoners, and above all, victims such as the deceased who hurt not a soul.
It sounded to me like the girls had been out all night too, but according to the NYTimes article they hadn't. One of the girls was with her family that morning, so all the "partying" was really confined to daytime.
I cannot agree with that logic iceberg. To say it quite frankly, as Americans, we are gluttons.
We don't know how to take things in moderation. If there were no controls on drug use everyone would be high off something and absolutely nothing would get done. Not to mention society will crumble into an abyss of death and destruction.
Legalize pot, but not Heroin or Cocaine.
what a waste.
Here here, Kojak. Americans are not mature enough to have legalized drugs. IMHO, this includes pot as well. While I love drugs, I can't see most Americans using them for the right reasons at the right times. Besides, who wants to smoke a Walmart brand of G13?
Why not heroin or coke? All laws controlling controlling what we put into our own bodies have always been unconstitutional, be it pot, liquid drano, elmer's glue or heroin.
damn the chick on the left should have gave me some before she OD'd. Man, college students use drugs? who figured?
Oh come on...
Pot was put on Earth by God as a gift to mankind!
The rest are products of Satan to kill more young people and bring them down to Hell to do his evil bidding.
"All laws controlling controlling what we put into our own bodies have always been unconstitutional, be it pot, liquid drano, elmer's glue or heroin."?
I'm curious, How so? Under what ammendment are you working under?
S.D.,
Embarrassingly enough, the federal government's war on drugs, has been justified on the basis of the interstate commerce clause.
According to the Tenth Amendment, the federal government of the United States only has the power to regulate matters specifically delegated to it by the Constitution. Other powers are reserved to the States, or to the people.
This is why understanding what the ICC says is critical. In the narrowest sense, it's intrepretation would restrict the powers of the federal government to only stop states from erecting trade barriers betweeen themselves, such as protective tarriffs, or outright embargos.
In the widely-abused, most-open interpretation used today, the federal government has the power to stop grannies from growing their own backyard weed, to consume by themselves. Or they can order you to stop breathing and just about anything else they want to have the power to do.
Anyone with a head between their shoulders recognizes that the writers of the constitution favored the narrow interpretation, not the 10th Amendment-revoking of the wide interpretation.
hmmm, she turned down Columbia and Harvard to go to NYU. I think the truth is she applied to Columbia and Harvard and was turned down.
Believe me, if those parents wanted a good future for their daughter, as they pointed out in the interviews with the press, they would work 10 jobs to get their daughter into either Columbia or Harvard.
They were party girls plain and simple, like the aruba girl, these things happen. They weren't in their 20's, they were 18.
The cops on the case probably seen it all, they were not angels.
You play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
"ouch, burnt my fingers"
'she turned down Columbia and Harvard to go to NYU. I think the truth is she applied to Columbia and Harvard and was turned down'
actually, i know a lot of people who choose NYU over Columbia and Harvard
All right, sir.
I accept that, since these were immigrant families and going to College is one of the goals for such.
Maybe Cambridge, New Haven, Wash hts, Ithaca, Princetown township don't have the Party cred that the W. village has and they've taken this into consideration.
no, it probably has more to do with the scholarship/grant offers NYU gave over Harvard, Columbia, etc
S.D., as someone said before, the 10th Amendment.
Essentially, the government is making a moral choice as to which compounds we stick inside of our own bodies are worthy of prison sentences.
Sometimes it's even more ridiculous because of the vagueness. Morphine is legal to take if I'm in pain, yet if I'm not in pain, I should be thrown in prison. Nice waste of a couple of billion dollars to weed out that kind of personal decision making.
Maria Pesantez did turn down columbia and harvard to attend NYU with people she knew and to stay close with her friends, she still at heart was humble enough. I know this because I graduated with her. Everything happened on that friday and the series of events led to their tragic deaths.
no matter what it was tragic, especially to their families. They were not drug addicts like the media proclaims them to be. The media is just loving this.
Iceberg,
Which could be used to justify Drug/Food/What not by the Federal Govt as long as such Legislation does not conflict with the Constitution.Hmmm, the Tenth Amendment is how I'd argue that it's Not up to the federal Gov't, but the 1st Ammendment, Section 1 states:
It's a Tricky interpretation, but that's how the US seems to have imterpreted it. I do agree with what the founding fathers felt: They did not trust Gov't.
'Maria Pesantez did turn down columbia and harvard to attend NYU with people she knew and to stay close with her friends, she still at heart was humble enough'
if that's the 'real' reason, then I believe rev pays logic. C'mon, Columbia University ain't that far from NYU
NYU had the best scholarship package as well, if i were her i would never go to columbia or harvard, and she was happy to be at nyu with some of our h/s friends,and is that a crime... why go after on what school she decided to go to
she had the grades for any school of her choice
If they weren't drug addicts then why did they have needles in their arms? and if it was because they were forced, then why did they put themselves in that position by going to a reputed low end drug dealer's house? I thought they were SMART kids who got into Harvard? The NYU effect strikes again.
Bad Heroin Supply Threatens Innocent saintly Junkie DRUG aDDICTs - paraphrased from Gawker
Hey, I went to NYU and never did heroin, or any drugs for that matter. Sheesh.
They had "fresh needle marks" not traces of months and years of track marks.
Even the smartest kids make mistakes. It doesnt matter what school you attend. The school no longer teaches you whats right from wrong or morals anymore. Public school systems hands out condems, what a way to go.
You try things probably once in your life and it's the worst mistake one can ever make. Drugs does not have the same effect on everyone. That is why the people who try it and survive become addicts and abusers of the drug. However there are the few that try it, and it takes a fatal turn.
Alcohol when consumed with cocaine, the liver makes a new drug called cocoethane which is a stronger form of cocaine, and leads to seizures, coma's or sudden death.
You see people drinking at a party you decide to drink too, but you never think you would be the one to get into a car accident, pass out, or even die.
No one ever wants to die the way they died. No parent or friend wants to see their daughter/friend die in front of them.
NYU is not the only school to suffer from tragics like this. Other schools do very well to keep it hushed up for their reputation. Every school is at fault, because this is not the 1st time it has happened, and surely will not be the last.
That's a mighty big jump from the casual college age cocaine snorters to full blown mainliners.
Didn't they go to Private school. (catholic, I believe) I hope her younger sister had a wake up call.
There's a reason why it's called junk.
Mellie seemed like a typical great east village girl - buried in her yellow 'fightcats' T-shirt. R.I.P.
http://www.lastnightsparty.com/mellie/index.html
Yes St. Vincent Ferrer is a Catholic Private school, which yet again has nothing to do with the events that happen. It didn't matter where or what there educational facilities consisted of. It was a personal choice made. It should be a wake up call for all people, who are in h/s and are testing and using drugs, all college students, who are introduced to those substances. People who are users now and how it can take a deadly turn on them.
Mellie and Maria were both beautiful people, and I surely miss having classes with them. Mellie was buried in her favorite sweater that I still remember from highschool, and her Mellie fightcats T-shirts. Both of them looked like angels and will never be forgotten by the hearts of her families, friends, and teachers who were all there to see her one last time. They were both great girls.
Don't NYU students have a history of Jumping off Ledges and Balconies? Out of all the College Students in NY, NYU students seem to have the most mental issues/drug problems. Remember hot girl who got busted for selling dope at NYU months back?
yes, NYU seems to attract a lot of kids with a pension for drama - ironically NYU has one of the best art, film, and theater programs in the country
I hate to put it in such a sharp way, but fuck you to everyone who has posted like they are some expert on what happened to these girls. Where are you getting your information- the fucking Post? I knew Maria personally, and just got back from her funeral. And yes, the media has had a field day. I have never been more disgusted in my life, watching some vulture of a reporter with a pretend look of concern sticking a camera in the faces of her parents as they left the funeral, looking for sensational lies to put on the evening news. Or take the Post, which saw fit to publish an article bashing the two girls as party animals on a "bender", even listing results of a toxicology report that has yet to be concluded! Maria, I know, was not a drug addict, not a coke fiend. It should be a wake up call, a terrible reminder of the viscious effects of drugs. But, anyone who self-righteously thinks they had it coming can go to hell. Yes, she fucked up, but I think her penalty has been paid, so for all those who see fit to lecture, I repeat, shut the fuck up. If you're looking for some diatribe, aim it at your soulless media, aim it at the piece of shit selling laced dope (obviously many of you didnt read the article), not two dead girls.
I hear you Ed. But that’s what tabloid reporters do. Pray on human Misery. Whoever takes their info from the Post or the Daily News need's their head's examined.
ed, I agree with you 100%.
I didnt get a chance to go to her funeral but I did attend the wake, and the media is just evil. They are nothing to what they proclaim them to be. I graduated with Maria, I saw how she was, she was so smart and she never had a problem with anyone, and any parent would of been proud of her just the way her mother was proud of Maria.
I don't know you, but atleast we were blessed by knowing Maria, and only those like us who knew them know the truth.
THE NYU EFFECT: Drugs, Drug Dealing, Suicide and Death, and HIPSTERDOM!
One of the Angel girls, Mellie, did have old needle tracks between her fingers.
I grew up in LES. I've seen this kind of kid before, and they are not at all innocent.
These kids from good homes with futures try to come down here and be cool.
How infuriatingly stupid of them.
A pitiful waste of life.
They weren't angels, they were a couple of dumb ass chicks who were stupid enough to shoot up and throw it all away. I can't even pity them. It's just infuriating.
your comment sickens me, and I hope to God one day it never happens to your kids if you ever have any of them or already do, and what will you say if it ever happened to them, will you say "How infuriatingly stupid of them.
A pitiful waste of life.
They weren't angels, they were a couple of dumb ass chicks who were stupid enough to shoot up and throw it all away. I can't even pity them. It's just infuriating."
I bet not, people should watch their words and not say things that they will never say to their own families or kids.
shoplifting is stupid....in 2005, people know what heroin and cocaine can do. this is infuriating. if i had a child and it happened to them, it would indeed be infuriating.
Hi there, I understand the perception you guys have on some of the field reporters out there. But, as we all know, we shouldn't generalize or judge anyone without any reason. I am a producer for a national show, and would love to get some of Millie and Maria friends to talk about her, the way you just mentioned here. We will solely talk to those who knew her well, especially those who were close to them. We want to give you, their friends, a chance to remember her the way you have always have known her. If you want to eventually be able to see that this could help other parents and teens avoid this tragedies please write to isabelny2005@yahoo.com
CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME THE SPACE OF MILLIE AND TELL ME WHAT MUSIC DID SHE LIKED