[grania]

It's been heartbreaking. The decision has been made to train emergency personnel and train them to use these opioid reversal drugs. What's happened? It's gotten even worse. It seems drug addicts are practicing riskier behavior now that there's a drug to reverse an overdose.

It eats your heart out when someone who could've been saved dies. But it's not that simple. Enabling bad behavior only leads to even worse bad behavior.

What's the answer? I'm getting all religious and philosophical and scared. Perhaps the only answer for mankind is a collapse of civilization, with what emerges afterward more self-reliant and responsible....until it spins out of control for yet another cycle.

[lastchance]

It has not gotten worse because emergency personnel have Narcan and such on hand. It has gotten worse because heroin is more readily available and it is now often laced with other substances that increase the risk of someone overdosing.