Posted on 09/10/2016 10:32:23 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
AKRON, Ohio - A rash of overdoses broke out across the Akron area Friday night, and police suspect heroin laced with Fentanyl and carfentanil is to blame.
Police and fire reported at least 24 separate incidents of overdoses on Friday night alone. Police Captain Brian Simcox confirmed at least four overdose deaths on Thursday night and said there have been 112 fatal overdoses in the city so far this year.
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Well, that’s one way to solve the heroin problem in your community.
Is having such a drug available helping or is it enabling an out-of-control situation? It's reached a point now where children have been endangered because the adults supervising them have collapsed from overdoses.
For every ambulance called to the scene figure at least a $300 charge to the town.
So, in first responder expense the cost for a medium sized city is about ten calls a night times 300 time 365 days a year. That’s a little over a million dollars.
Now add in all of the other expenses such as theft, hospitals, and all other things tied to opiate abuse.
East of the Mississippi this crap comes in from Mexico.
We need a wall for this reason alone. We should be sending drones to kill cartel lords instead of Isis weddings—which, relatively speaking, represent the deaths of a couple hundred people every year.
The American people need to wake the hell up.
Narcan will reverse the affects, but not for long. It puts the user into almost immediate withdrawal. They are up and back on the street, using in no time fast.
You said what I popped in to...
Let Darwin have his way.
Fewer addicts and obiously fewer Hillary voters.
Not the fentanyl, which is what is killing them.
When drug users overdose that is someone up above saying, “OK, you’ve been doing this long enough now. You refuse to read the warning signs so now you are responsible for the results.”
My question is, “How many times do they think we should save their sorry ass?”
The drug is so addictive users take it even after they see friends overdose on it. Sometimes it is immediately fatal. President Bush bombed a factory in Mexico in 2006 when these deaths were sweeping across the U.S. The only remedy is to remove the supply. It is too addictive for success rates. This is what Trump understands and will remedy with force.
With any luck the all died.
Somebody didn’t stomp on the new batch hard enough.
Would someone please explain why police and EMS are responding to SAVE the lives of people who are INTENTIONALLY trying to kill themselves? Seems a waste when they could be helping those who aren’t self-destructive.
I don't use drugs, legal or illegal. My questions come from the battles I've had, after a tooth extraction and a few years later with a shoulder injury. The doctors DEMANDED that I take pain killers "to help the healing process". I didn't take them, the pain was tolerable, and in both cases I healed just fine.
I just can't help thinking the situation is so the doctors won't have to be bothered later on if the pain really is tough to handle. I just don't get it that tolerable pain shouldn't be part of the coping and healing process.
These dealers often target youngsters, hang around schools, and trick them into using. Since black tar heroin is more addictive than possibly any other drug, it can take just one time to produce addiction.
This drug has devastated communities in at least 17 states, probably more, with tax payers ending paying for much of the damage.
What’s with Ohio, anyway? That photo of the zonked couple in the car came from East Liverpool, OH.
Why do people mess their lives up like that?
The dealers deserve the Duterte treatment.
I agree with you. I can drink a six pack of beer faster than my wife wants me to do. But the side effects of oxycodone type of drugs are worse than the pain. So I take a regular dose of aspirin and deal with the pain.
I had my shoulder rebuilt (screws, chopped bone, etc...). I took one oxycodone pill and felt like I was a squirrel on speed. I immediately went to regular doses of aspirin.
One positive effect of pain that is often ignored, is that pain is telling you "not to do that." I was not to move my shoulder or arm for 14 days. The slightest movement caused my pain level to go from "throbbing pain" to "red hot iron rod piercing your soul." So it was very easy to remember- don't move your arm.
I get it, but if the police have to take a person like this into protective custody, you are going to get sued for failure to act, possibly even civil rights violations.
You just can’t say no if you are summoned.
Either legalize it and give it out for free at clinics where they can die in a controlled environment or do like the Philippines and kill the dope dealers on sight.
There are significant social consequences for each, one allows people to make a choice that probably kills them, the other will start a civil war.
But the status quo isn’t working and its getting much worse, even moreso than five years ago.
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