The original blogging city-council candidate returns

Matt O'Malley, who blogged during his 2003 campaign for an at-large city council seat, is blogging again as he tries for an at-large seat this fall. He discusses three guys he met at Roche Bros.:

... They asked me about the drug problem in Boston. I talked about my plan for hiring pupil adjustment counselors in the public schools (both middle and high), lobbying for more money for dual-diagnosis programs and creating more N.A., A.A., and peer support groups geared toward teens. Treatment and education, I told them, is the best way to curb this epidemic.

One of the guys told me that he was hooked on oxycontin and had been clean for sixteen weeks. We talked at length about how he got started and the difficulties of getting clean. He told me that he had to get out of Boston because he felt he could not escape his addiction, and was looking forward to an upcoming summer job that would take him away ...