I spent 25 years working on the streets in the most crime ridden city in the Northwest. We had twice the rate of criminal activity as Seattle and 50% more than Portland. Your view of druggies and the problems they create is far more accurate than the fuzzy bunny portrayal advocated by the persons who scolded you here and said that you were “40 years behind the times”. This is from someone who spent his career often bringing the exact same losers back from the dead with Narcan and CPR.
The media and the entertainment industry is pushing a false narrative on this issue that portrays the users in a very sympathetic light that is almost completely false. They typically start with alcohol and marijuana and keep wanting more and more. There is an abundance of information and even popular songs available to them for decades letting them know where they are headed. We always did our best to save them, but I don't shed a lot of tears these days over the ones we didn't find in time. It was sheer stupidity. Usually the ones we would find dead were doing it alone because they had already alienated all of their friends and family. Often they had been dead and decaying for days or weeks.
I’ll ditto your message as an EMT. Got so tired of the winos/dopers that I got out of the biz. Now is it so bad, the police have to be on scene before ther EMT are released to attend.
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