Addicts anger doctor

Press, 27 September 1982, Page 6

Addicts anger doctor

PA Auckland Drug addicts have taken advantage of an Auckland police doctor, Dr Laiines Jojinson, once too often. He says they can “rot in hell from now on.” Since becoming a police doctor five years ago, his home has been burgled twice, his surgery twice, and there have been several attempted burglaries. Last week, Dr Johnson's medical bag was stolen for the fourth time. “That’s it as far as I am concerned. I have had a gutsful of them. The more

you help druggies, the more they take advantage of you,” he said. Dr Johnson, as one of five doctors who work for the Auckland police, is often called to police cells to treat arrested addicts who are suffering from drug withdrawal. He believed he was a target for drug thieves because he often worked with addicts and was well known among them.' Apart from the thefts, he said he and his wife were tired of prowlers and “strange-looking” callers to their home “who were obvi-

ously checking out the place.” He said he had even been confronted by women addicts who would remove their clothes and threaten to “scream rape” if he did not hand over drugs. “They abuse your private life and I have stood it for long enough. I have had to get a silent alarm installed at home because of them” he said. The final straw was the latest theft of his medical bag, even though the police recovered it and made an arrest.