Posted on 09/20/2023 12:36:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Darwinian social correction. If we don’t try to correct for these behaviors, nature will do it for us and not in a nice way.
It started happening long ago. San Francisco used to be a swanky, elegant town. The people there looked down on us Southern Californians. I enjoyed going up there with my family. But since the 1970s, I watched a decline.
A lot of native San Franciscans were fed up long ago. Even back then, I had worked with one who complained about the hippie graveyard San Francisco had become.
"They show up looking for something that died in the 60s," she said.
So untrue.
Fr has a sizeable number of ignorant bigots.
Adding you to the list.
San Fran has been a chess pool of drugs for decades. The ChiComs are relative new comers.
Did you want to declare war on Jamaica when it was the Posses running things?
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I’m not going to compare apples and oranges-there are two issues here.
China is sending the fentanyl through the southern border with the cartel runners and mules-that is a law enforcement and immigration issue-and we all know what the solution to that is-untie the hands of the Border Patrol and CLOSE the f***ing border. The issue of self destructive addicts is not what the person is using to destroy themselves, because if they don’t have any fentanyl, they will get something else-probably meth-that is the next drug of choice they can probably afford. Many if not most of those people are mentally ill either from years of drug abuse or from psych issues they had before drug use/addiction-they cannot be helped unless they will commit to therapy and recovery, period. Mentally healthy people do not destroy themselves with substance abuse/addiction.
The cartels bring fentanyl-also cocaine and even cheap meth-once again, an immigration/law enforcement issue that needs for the border to be closed and illegals deported/arrested to make it go away...
“My 1st husband said that hard-drug use was eventually a self-cancelling problem-he first said that around 1974-I agreed then and I still agree. You can’t save everyone from themselves-it is not possible-some people seem to be born self-destructive”
But they do a lot of harm to others along the way.
They need to stop reviving any and all of them that are OD’d.
They can, unless they are held to account for their behavior by relatives, friends, etc while they are still self aware. At that point, most can be persuaded to self-commit or be committed by a family member to rehab-tough thing to do when someone you care for is threatening, pleading, crying etc, but it is the last chance that person has. If that is not successful, then their loved ones have done all that is possible and need to turn off the enabling-like I said, you can’t save everyone...
I’m speaking professionally-as a case manager-but I’ve also seen this in my own family a couple of times-no family is immune...
I think we are in the middle of another opium war, except this time it’s the U.S. that is the target nation.
“I’m speaking professionally-as a case manager-but I’ve also seen this in my own family a couple of times-no family is immune...”
Had it in my family. Relative was smoking crack in our basement and stealing from us. We were fortunate. A pastor from our church got the subject into rehab and it worked.
About 15 years ago, one of my cousins got into doing meth-he was in rehab but relapsed less than a year later and was way, way out there-no one could get through to him. He found out that his sister had a lawyer and was getting ready to have him committed-he just disappeared and no one has seen or heard from/of him since-the family hired a private outfit to look for him and they traced him to Denver-after that it all went cold. Everyone is pretty sure he met a bad end and is dead.
2-year-old dies of fentanyl overdose, M.E. says it’s the ‘most pills she’s ever seen in a child’
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