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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
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Public and first responder access to Narcan. Paramedic and I haven't had to administer it in months thanks to bystanders, law enforcement and fire rescue getting it on board before I arrive
In my city, there's a LOT of homeless addicts who abuse drugs. My city invested heavily in providing specialists who walk around with narcan and other supplies.
A few years prior to that, Law enforcement used to arrest these addicts.
So what you're saying is that they (the city) treated it as a medical problem and not a law enforcement problem. Now you're seeing fewer deaths and better outcomes for addicts who clearly need help. All they need to do now is work on the mental health issues to treat homelessness and addiction and then gain societal profit. It's like there is a kinda of logic to treating people with empathy and respect results in better outcomes...
are these homeless addicts ABUSING THE POOR DRUGS or are they human beings struggling to survive in a capitalist hellscape?
I tried to feel bad for these abused drugs but i can't stop thinking about the people!
the drugs did nothing to deserve the abuse, how do we know the homeless were quite so innocent?
Drug abuse is in regards to people use drugs in an unhealthy manner, i.e. addiction. You can abuse alcohol as well.
Stop acting like saying ‘abusing drugs is a problem’, is an insult towards people. It’s so performative and useless in helping anybody who has ever had issues with substance abuse.
And "drug abuse" is also language that is used by politicians or police to dehumanize homeless people.
Yes there's a technical term obviously, but like "retard" or "cripple", there's negative connotations that get in the way.
It’s not at all the same, and I’m saying this as someone who has abused them in the past.
You’re trying to make a big deal out of nothing and it’s distracting from the cause.