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Due Process - Good Samaritan (Aired 4/21/2013)

The argument is that in an overdose crisis, fear of police and prosecution often keeps even good friends from getting help. So the drug deaths continue to add up. More than 700 each year in New Jersey alone. Some practitioners, even legislators from both sides of the aisle, say there's one simple way to get help when it's needed. Remove the fear of arrest! On this edition of Due Process: the "Good Samaritan" bill: a way of encouraging friends, fellow users, even dealers, to call for life-saving help by shielding them from prosecution. A small price to pay, say supporters. But the bill's been put in legislative limbo by conditional veto of the Governor. From an opening mini doc, featuring a Middlesex County mother, whose son died from an overdose in a Rutgers dorm when his friends failed to immediately call for help, to a contentious debate in-studio, we explore both sides of a sensitive subject. Studio guests: Bill Sponsor Sen. Joseph Vitale, Bill Opponent Assemblyman Erik Peterson and, from the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Kevin Meara.