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Some cities have programs where addicts can go to a fire station and they will be set up with help and rehab immediately. They will not be arrested if they are high or holding drugs but treated as a sick person who needs help. This is a good start. Of course sometimes addicts are beyond saving and that is sad but sometimes there is underlying mental illness.
Some cities have programs where addicts can go to a fire station and they will be set up with help and rehab immediately. They will not be arrested if they are high or holding drugs but treated as a sick person who needs help. This is a good start. Of course sometimes addicts are beyond saving and that is sad but sometimes there is underlying mental illness.
They give out narcan here to cops and friends of drug addicts. So people do their drugs, get the narcan, go to the ED where they scream, spit and yell at the staff for ruining their high, then walk out, then come back the next day or even the same day for overdosing. They do this until they eventually just die. It's not a start of anything.
Reagan and the Republicans closed down state psychiatric facilities (deinstitutionalization) with the promise of funding community services to help maintain these folks in the community. Very little funding followed and for the most part, the police struggle to deal with the thousands of mentally ill people who wander our streets.
Yes, it's all the fault of "Big Pharma" that people choose to shoot heroin and smoke crack.
Opium poppies were grown for medicinal purposes as far back as 3400 BC in SW Asia. Opium addiction is more than 5000 years old.
The way the story goes is the Brits smuggled opium into China resulting in an astounding percentage of addicted people eventually resulting in the Opium Wars.
Bayer created the process of converting morophine to Heroin in the 1800's. MDs used to prescribe it. It became illegal in the 1920's.
A percentage of current Heroin addicts began their journey with using opioids for recreational purposes. Heroin is a better bang for the buck.
Heroin can be smoked, snorted, packed and injected, no diff than pills.
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It's sad what drugs can do to people.
Addiction knows no party, no politics. Conservatives, progressives, independents....
A lot of Americans deal with or know someone who deals with addiction. It's a difficult thing......watching somebody destroy themselves.
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