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UMass Student Dies of Heroin Overdose After Campus Police Recruit Him as Informant.
This is horrible.
His heroin habit was a secret he had to keep from his parents. Then the campus police who busted him offered away to do just that.
“Who do you think you know more than your son?” said Logan’s father, recalling his son as the kind of guy who remembered to send him a birthday card and gave great hugs. While Logan had been arrested for cocaine possession two years earlier, family members chalked it up to youthful indiscretion, an error unlikely to be repeated.
However, people on campus, including the UMass police, knew a darker side: Logan had been caught selling LSD and the club drug Molly almost a year before his death, an offense that normally would have led to Logan’s suspension and notification of his parents.
But they didn’t tell Logan’s parents. Instead, they offered him a chance to keep the offense secret, and to stay in school, by becoming a campus police informant.
Desperate to keep his parents in the dark, Logan said yes.
Now, his death is raising questions about whether the university did enough to help a student with a serious drug problem, whether it had any business making such an offer to a vulnerable undergraduate, and whether it has fully come to grips with the fact that the heroin epidemic has not spared the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts.
“Who do you think you know more than your son?” said Logan’s father, recalling his son as the kind of guy who remembered to send him a birthday card and gave great hugs. While Logan had been arrested for cocaine possession two years earlier, family members chalked it up to youthful indiscretion, an error unlikely to be repeated.
However, people on campus, including the UMass police, knew a darker side: Logan had been caught selling LSD and the club drug Molly almost a year before his death, an offense that normally would have led to Logan’s suspension and notification of his parents.
But they didn’t tell Logan’s parents. Instead, they offered him a chance to keep the offense secret, and to stay in school, by becoming a campus police informant.
Desperate to keep his parents in the dark, Logan said yes.
Now, his death is raising questions about whether the university did enough to help a student with a serious drug problem, whether it had any business making such an offer to a vulnerable undergraduate, and whether it has fully come to grips with the fact that the heroin epidemic has not spared the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/27/heroin-takes-life-flagship-campus-umass-did-university-enough/KeUcRPH2VyQWmI0lhii01K/story.html
