Posted on 07/14/2017 5:31:02 AM PDT by from occupied ga
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legal or not, using opioids is just plain stupid. Compared to an opioid user, a man who punches himself in the face looks smart.
That's why I roll my eyes and change the channel when hectored about this so-called epidemic. If you want to talk about an epidemic, talk about zika or bird flu. Opioid addiction comes from a decision, not a virus. No mosquito can infect you with opioid addiction, and you don't need antibacterial soap to avoid catching it. To speak of it as an epidemic and to speak of addicts as victims is to stack the rhetorical deck for the view that addictions and overdoses are diseases rather than choices.
And that brings us to Middletown, Ohio, ... A city councilman there ... has proposed that the city’s EMTs simply ignore 911 calls from any overdosing addict who has already received Narcan from the city twice before. Three strikes, says his proposal, and you’re out. The very suggestion has, of course, prompted a tsunami of hate mail from people with lots of tattoos.
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And if my cold-hearted attitude means that more opioid users die, my answer is a big, fat so what? If they don’t want to die, they shouldn’t abuse opioids. If an addict doesn't care about his own life, why should I?
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You who tell us we have a duty to rescue every user, you who say we should give him a government program and pay a regiment of social workers for his benefit, you are the same people who portray the addict’s drug use as something other than a conscious decision.
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Save our EMTs for real victims of real diseases.
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Yes it’s stupid. Some people however are predisposed to addiction. It’s always been that way always. Like casino’s and liberalism, it’s hyper exploitation.
Whew. Harsh words there. This isn’t an article, it’s a manifesto.
Clearly also written by someone without any knowledge of addictions.
Aside from the overdosing, how do these people take this stuff without getting SUPER constitpated?
I disagree.
The main problem with this is that the drugs coming in from China are so lethal that they endanger even the police who can receive a lethal dose by just brushing against it accidentally in the course of their duties.
Agreed.. and has neither understood how drug addiction is used to enslave people for prostitution. Also, there is no real place for mentally ill people to go and the drugs hide the root problem.
I have on large tattoo.. so I guess she would dismiss me, but I have watched nurses hold the hand of an addict.
Thus isn’t about compassion. It’s about finite resources.
OP clearly doesn’t know jack about the issue. Disposable article as it’s shallow answers attempting to address deep water.
Because of this, the new laws governing the use of things like Vicodin mean I can no longer get my prescription from my Rheumatologist. I have to go to a pain doctor who will then decide what I need. Last time it was a round of painful injections which lasted all of three days and cost several hundred dollars after my insurance company got done paying. For less than 50 cents, I could have taken 6 Vicodin over the three days, felt better and slept better.
So once again, the government punishes those with true needs while they give precedence to addicts.
No concept about living with pain, no concept about the Big Pharma and the medical profession’s part in it, someone on thier high judgmental horse.
Yes, I get that sometimes the frustration causes one to throw up their hands and say let them do what they want including self destruct.
But that is no reason to just give up. Do I think all this should be decriminalized? Yes. Even though sometimes a little time in jail is good for breaking the user cycle, I have heard that drugs are readily available in jail.
Anyway, the writer of this article is a one dimensional thinker.
there is plenty for everyone or there is a limited pie, depending on what your philosophy is. the answer isn’t known.
I agree with the author. In my area, addicts are overdosing in parking lots and public restrooms. I think it’s because they think they are sure to be found and given Narcan. This is premeditated and a conscious decision on their part.
My opinion? First overdose, bring them back and mandate that they have to go through addiction treatment. Second overdose - revive and give them a year jail sentence in a facility for addicts. Third overdose - grant them their final wish and let them die. It is merciful at that point - to the addict and their family. I know that sounds harsh, but I don’t think the taxpayer should be required to continually bail them out.
There’s one answer known: annual budgets. Unlike the Feds, states, counties, towns, and cities can’t print money. If rationing has to take place, I’m okay with cutting off addicts.
Irrelevant. Tell me again the justification as to why my hard earned money should be taken form me at gunpoint and spent treating people who make a conscious decision to abuse drugs.
He's absolutely correct. You don't "catch" an addiction, you decide to become an addict when you start down the path of abusing drugs
You are flat out wrong. The answer IS known, and it's the limited resource one.
God says there’s plenty for everyone.
That’s why you see all these commercials for opioid related constipation you didn’t see on TV 10 years ago. That’s why I tend to think that it must really be bad out there and not some overblown fake thing.
I don’t know what the solution is. But for sure the cartels digs that we save a % of their consumers from their product killing them so they can potentially buy the product again. A good wacky conspiracy theory would connect overdose medication research funding to drug cartel cash.
Freegards
I remember the good old days before the explosion in opiod prescriptions when use was limited to the inner cities and nobody gave a crap.
Legalize it, pile it as high as an elephants eye, the problem solves itself.
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