SC House Bills To Curtail Heroin Use Being Considered

State lawmakers are considering bills to hopefully eliminate the heroin epidemic ravaging South Carolina. 

One House measure would mean harsher punishment for the person who sold a lethal dose to a victim, attaching an involuntary manslaughter charge to the arrest. Legislators, however lowered the prison time from 15 to 5 years. 

A second bill being discussed in committee, would lighten the penalty for users who alert authorities of another user's overdosing situation. The lawmakers' rationale - a drug user should not be jailed if trying to save another person's life.


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