Unless your drug was prescribed to you by a trusted doctor and came to you over a drug store counter, you should never, ever, put a drug into your system.
This report bothers me and my sensibilities to be sure. I want to launch into a “we ought to do this, and politicians are to blame” mindset. The homelessness issue has pulled on my heartstrings since it began.
But in the end, the responsibility now has to lie with the users. There is NO politician now that cares. There will be no “campaign” to end this. The borders are open, the drugs are flowing, and if you choose to open your mouth and put these drugs into it, or shoot them into your veins, YOU, and ONLY YOU, are to blame. You and only you can save yourself by avoiding them and the people and risky situations that lead to it.
I came from a less than great family. I was abused as a kid, and essentially left home at 18. Worked my way through college, refused to associate with losers, checked my friends out carefully and now am married to a guy who holds a top secret clearance and we have a great life. I had choices, and I made them. I don’t buy all of this when people say they’re down on their luck. If you have half a brain you can see this is not good for you. If you are too stupid and too careless to start, then, sadly, you are going to have a rough time of it.
We grill our youngest college aged son non-stop to not accept anything from anyone — a pill, a drink, a vitamin — unless it was prescribed by a doctor. no taking a drink from someone — order your own. If he decides to do anything against our advice, it will be on him, not us. The older one just never had a desire to do drugs, although he drank a lot. I still worry he could get poisoned inadvertently, but so far he manages to stay away from harm. Again, it will be on them, if they decide to stray from our advice. They’ve been told and warned repeatedly.
That’s just reality now in post-Obama’s America. They need to be told, but in the end, it’s on them.