Because your going at it the wrong way.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — There’s been a “concerning uptick” in deadly overdose activity in Davidson County, according to the Metro Nashville Public Health Department.
Three people died from overdoses in the same East Nashville apartment complex within a 24-hour window. Experts told News 2 that fentanyl-laced substances were likely to blame.
“In the last 12 hours, the community has experienced three overdose deaths,” Dr. Ann Melville-Chester with the MNPHD said Thursday afternoon. “I will say that to you: that is three too many.”
Metro Health reports 'concerning uptick' in deadly overdose activity across Nashville, TN
The solution?
Following the reports Thursday, they were handing out naloxone at the Kirkpatrick Community Center as part of an event.
There is an arsonist on the loose and here we are, the caring souls, passing buckets of sand rather than chase after the firebug and light his ass with a napalm enema.
And yes, the junkie has a reasonability on the issues, but you have to go at least after one of the factors in the equation and not pontificate and highlight the result of inaction from a top of your righteousness pedestal.
And I am starting to believe that free Narcan is indeed giving a second chance to addicts, and a third, and a fourth, etc. A chance to repeat the same behavior that required the use of the darn thing to begin with. Narcan is not fixing but perpetuating.
Re Narcan ... Having it used on you should be a "come to Jesus" moment. But for a lot of people it seems to be taken instead as a "get out of death free" card. As Mrs B has put it, for those it takes away the bottom you have to hit before you really believe something has to change.
I don't know what the solution is ... but something needs to change.
Re going after the dealer, well. There's a thought! 🤔
What they don't mention is that Narcan puts the user immediately into withdrawal. Some (many?) users just go for another fix asap to fix the withdrawal symptoms.