they are NOT victims!!!
Posted on 01/21/2019 9:42:27 AM PST by bitt
The first victim was outside the house, sprawled on a patio beside the garage. His friends were already performing CPR when Chico police got to the scene.
The others are inside, they told police.
Four more victims were in the garage, a converted space with couches and coffee tables. One was in the bathroom, having collapsed while taking a shower. Six others were scattered around the house in various stages of intoxication. Drugs and alcohol and the tools to ingest them were everywhere.
An officer radioed for help. Send everything, he said: All of the paramedics, all of the ambulances.
On this sleepy Saturday morning this month, 13 people at the same small party had overdosed all at once. Half of them had stopped breathing and needed CPR and the overdose-reversing drug naloxone to be revived. One man, a 34-year-old father of four, died before paramedics could get him to a hospital.
The incident is among the worst mass overdose events in Northern California since the opioid epidemic hit the state a decade or so ago. It offers a window into a still-new phase of that epidemic, as the ultra-potent drug fentanyl snakes into the supply of not just heroin and other opiates, but recreational drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Chico police Sgt. Curtis Prosise, one of the first officers on the scene. “We’ve had an overdose or two here or there, but nothing on that scale.”
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Thanks for the Post.
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IT’S NOT THE DRUGS !!! IT’S DRUG JUNKIES!!!!
Stop saving them and thin the Herd.
they are NOT victims!!!
>They executed the addicts as well as the suppliers and after a while the problem was not all that severe anymore.
This has also been suggested as a solution to poverty, genetic diseases, general discontent etc. It is usually a cure worse than the problem.
The fentanyl overdose epidemic has one cause: the government crackdown on legal, pure, pharmaceutical grade opioids. Drug laws did not exist until 1906 and most of the Founding Fathers were users. The federal government had no legal basis to ban any drug without a constitutional amendment until the New Deal Supreme Court decision Wickard v Filburn (1942) usurped the power to regulate everything. Drugs are a natural and originalist constitutional right, not a crime.
There are those on this forum who condemn the natural as deadly, and categorically extol the wonders of technology.
I prefer Nature whenever possible. Which is why I have never even tried drugs. Not once.
As a Christian, I oppose intoxication; however, I will concede that truly natural drugs are less dangerous than some of these artificial ones.
Having said that:
1. You did not prove that “most” of the Founding Fathers were “users”: Define what constituted a user, and who did what.
2. You fail to note the enormous profit incentive in synthetically producing artificial (not natural), and therefore patentable, drugs. That is how Big Pharma got BIG!
thankfully, its mostly whites it seems that are dying....as planned...
I do not think it is quite that simple. The recovering addict remains in a state of recovery forever; he is never cured. The factors that lead to relapse could be anything. I can envision a situation in which someone who has been “clean” for decades has some bad life experiences which weaken his resolve to control the addiction, and he goes right back into use. It also is not a matter of him making an active effort to go procure drugs. Drug users often offer drugs to others, unsolicited.
Drug addiction is a brain disorder. The only real choice is at the beginning, when one makes that decision to try it. After that, the addiction sets in and one can only fight against it. The fight never ends.
One scientist told me that his motivation for going into research was that when he was a little boy, he knew an addict who had been clean for twenty years. The addict had dedicated his life to helping others learn to control their addictions. Then one day the “former” addict disappeared—he had died of an overdose. This left a strong impression on my colleague.
Scientists are actively studying addiction and trying to better understand the addictive process. Until we can do that and come up with a way to truly treat the addiction, keeping addicts from relapsing is always going to be a challenge, one we fail much too often.
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