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Sunday, June 5, 2016
LANSING — People addicted to drugs in the remote Upper Peninsula city of Escanaba have a rare group of people to turn to for treatment: the police.
The opioid epidemic sweeping Michigan has only recently hit the isolated community of about 12,000 people, where the problem is now so desperate that the city’s soon-to-be police director Lt. Robert LaMarche says they’re “finding needles all over the city.” In response, Escanaba police have agreed to not arrest people who enter the station voluntarily seeking addiction treatment if drug possession is their only crime; police have helped six people since the ANGEL Volunteer Program started in February.