The Opioid crisis is a hot topic of conversation as Americans share pleas for help in solving the problem to various government entities — federal, state and local.
The severity of the crisis was demonstrated by a recent incident in which a 9 year old boy fell on a needle left behind at a Boston neighborhood park.
The boy, who was in elementary school, fell and tripped at football practice at the local park. You will be injected with a needle for drugsThat was on the field.
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Domingos Darosa was the Boston Bengals Pop Warner Coach. “Fox & Friends Weekend”We will discuss the case and the opioid crisis in the area.
Outside Boston, a coach joined Fox and Friends Weekend in order to discuss how a boy got prickled with a needle while he was practicing football for his Pop Warner football team.
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“We’ve been dealing with this for a little over a decade,” he said.
“We have an Opioid Crisis like any other American city.”
Darosa stated that it was a common football practice on the day he sent the children to do a lap to warm-up.
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A few minutes after the children began to play, some of the team members called his attention back to the field.
One of the boys had fallen, landed on a needle — and was panicking.
A Boston 9-year old boy was injected with a needle during football practice. He fell to the ground on a warm up lap.
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After calming the boy down, the coach called the boy’s mom and summoned an EMT to help transport the child to a medical facility.
Darosa described the town’s area as “rough”, and stated that this was an ongoing problem for years.
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This is every day. This covers all 365 days of the year. We as a community can’t take anymore,” said Darosa.
Domingos Darosa stated that the problem of drug use in the area has been ongoing for some time and that the city is not doing anything to address it.
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According to the coach, the incident had an effect on the players of the football team.
Some children have decided to leave.
“We’ve been asking the city to have ongoing maintenance and also police presence.”
Darosa also shared an example of another troubling incident that occurred in the vicinity.
A video showed a naked homeless man in the bleachers at a nearby softball field during a girls’ softball practice.
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The coach saw the man and asked him to leave.
These are the needles you will see around the park where a Pop Warner Football team holds its practices.
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Darosa stated that the community had pleaded for assistance from the city.
“We’ve been asking the city to have ongoing maintenance and also police presence, to ensure that the young people who use this park and [the]Community itself [don’t] have to be the nameless victims of what’s going on around the city.”
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Darosa mentioned that the issue must be addressed as a result of the elementary school being located only 100 feet from the practice field.
