I guess that’s one way of quitting.
Excellent!
I’ve never read it one way or another, but I hope those who contract this bacteria can’t pass it along to an otherwise healthy, innocent person.
seems like it’s kind of bad for business to kill your repeat customers ...
Prayers for their families.
What on earth happened to these people, or what series of bad decisions did they make, that led to this outcome?
Only God knows, but it’s just terrible how people end up dead.
Dysfunction Junction. :(
Nature has a way of cleaning up the environment, just like HIV, these exotic diseases seem only to concentrate in certain groups......groups that abuse nature.
The problem is self-correcting. I hope it hurt, a lot...
“All of them were between the ages of 19 to 57.” That there’s some shoddy rhetoric.
What, no toddlers; no octogenarians?
My plan is working!
That’s a shame.
I’m trying to work up some sympathy for these folks who live in one of the most delightful cities in America and choose to commit suicide?
Sorry. Not finding any!
And nobody wants to die, in Van Nuys.
Some problems solve themselves.
“”sticky drug that often contains impurities resulting from crude processing methods.””
For goodness sake! Let’s make sure that the processing methods are sanitary and meet all government standards. Can’t have this going on! That’s the least we can do for these poor addicts! If they can’t meet the standards, then we can just shut them down. Problem solved! Well, except for those who died - too bad!
Southern California.
A deliberately engineered third world country.
Kurt Schlichter’s predictions in spades.
Most of the heroin/fentanyl addicts start with something more attractive (pills) under peer pressure. Some who start with club drugs like ecstasy are given something to take the edge of paranoia away, like Xanax, fake Xanax, opioids or opates. Even meth is being sold more in pretty pill form for the girls.
If they’re high on marijuana and maybe even a little booze to take the leading paranoid edge off of the pot, the decision to try something different is much easier, especially within a group of people bragging about their experiences with other drugs. Most heroin/fentanyl addicts started with lighter, more popular drugs.
Whether we find it sad or appropriate, actions have consequences that cannot be legislated away. It’s real life.
There is a Russian equivalent of this phenomenon.
Their narcotic of choice is a Desmorphine commonly known as Krokodil, a flesh eating drug.
It is occasionally seen here in the states.
Does this bacterial outbreak now make the injection of heroin unsafe?
/sarc