September 16, 2015.1 Issue 4, Volume 63 I thebluebannpf,
Grove
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in his lease agreement.
The Grove management
caught flak in the past for not
providing a safe environment,
according to city records.
According to information
from the Asheville Fire De
partment, in February, a water
main burst under building 900
causing the first floor to flood.
During the subsequent repair,
electrical generators were used
to power drying fans in the first
floor apartments, releasing poi
sonous carbon monoxide into
surrounding apartments. The
whole building had to be evac
uated and a woman was briefly
hospitalized.
“Despite evidence to the con
trary, it’s not as terrible as peo
ple make it out to be,” said Mal
low. “But it’s not the best place
to live.”
Hyannis
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and a culture of equality while
providing resources, support
networks and a space for com
munity building events.
“There are libraries, bro
chures and handbooks as re
sources throughout the house,
Fray er said.
This is aside from other re
sources the staff at the Hyannis
House can provide for students.
According to the Na
tional Sexual Violence Re
source Center, less than 5
percent of victims report the
incident to law enforeement.
“Surviving sexual as
sault made me realize I can use
my experiences to help others
and that is what I want to do
with my life,” Howard said.
“I’m changing things here on
campus and it’s really made a
difference about the way I see
and feel about college.”
LARISA KARR
A&FEditor
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'culture, the
beer and the underlying feel
of community: Asheville has a
reputation for fostering all of
these things.
But this sense of community
also comes with a dark side,
one rarely associated with a
city characterized as a hippie
meeca, ready to extend its arms
to embrace the vagabonds,
artists and activists that tread
its streets.
This dark side can be snort
ed, shot up or swallowed.
“The real addict is brought
to the feelings that makes them
see life the way they want to,”
said Inigo Sanabria Gonzalez,
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side of drug use in
former UNC Asheville student. ^’^Susan Holman, a doctor who
“Once you know that lens, and
you know that you like seeing
things through that lens, you
just want to keep it on.”
Buncombe County is includ
ed in the High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Area program, a
program funded by federal,
state and local governments to
curb drug trafficking in critical
regions of.the United States.
The initiatives are geared
toward investigating narcotic
transportation through North
Carolina, which is considered
a primary corridor for the
passage of opioids, and most
recently, the location of an
emerging increase in Mexican
black tar heroin, according to
the White House website.
specializes in addiction med
icine, confirmed that heroin
abuse, in black tar and powder
form, is alive and real in the
Asheville area.
“We used to think of heroin
as just sort of a street drug that
only down-and-outs used, and
boy, has that changed in the
last 20 years,” Holman said.
“It’s being seen a lot now on
college campuses and pretty
much everywhere else.!’
The rise in heroin abuse is a
side effect of the ongoing trend
of prescription drug abuse
in the United States, which,
according to a 2010 survey
from the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services
Administration, indicates that
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individuals age 12 to 25 report
the highest rates of nonmedical
use of prescription drugs. One
counselor said this specific
phenomenon extends to UNCA
as well.
“In terms of heroin, I don’t
think we have an accurate size
of the extent, but what we see
are students who arrive at UNC
Asheville already addicted to
pain meds,” said Barbara
Galloway, substance abuse
counselor at the UNCA Health
and Wellness Center.
“Then, of course, as college
students they can’t afford to
buy OxyContin off the street,
so they will turn to heroin as a
cheaper alternative.”
One of the variables cited as
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