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The nation's chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nation's opioid crisis and save lives.
Speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Thursday morning, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued his office's first national public health advisory in 13 years.
Overdoses are just one of many variations of what I call "adding chlorine to the gene pool."
The life of the OD addict is theirs, it belongs to them, and they can end it if they so choose. Who am I to stop them from executing their own choices over a life that they own?
There are plenty of rehab facilities available to the addicts. It's their decision to not utilize them and carry on with their self destructive lifestyle. Why interfere when they can address the problem themselves? I say let them go; it simply reinforces Darwin's Theory.
I would be nervous to get involved if I came across someone overs dosing short of calling 911.
What if they were to get violent or I harmed them somehow and they sued me? Are they recommending that we also carry gloves and a face mask in case the druggie spits or bleeds on us and passes along his hepatitis or aids?
I have a hard time being sympathetic to someone that willingly shoots themselves with garbage risking their very lives each time they do it and crushing the hopes of their loved ones.
Overdoses are just one of many variations of what I call "adding chlorine to the gene pool."
The life of the OD addict is theirs, it belongs to them, and they can end it if they so choose. Who am I to stop them from executing their own choices over a life that they own?
At first I thought the advisory was for regular folks going about their day and accidentally being exposed therefore needing the antidote to administer for their own health.
But no, the government wants me to buy an antidote for $37.50 and administer it to strangers if I see them OD in public.
To that I say how about this Sammy: get your nose out of my life, quit manipulating the free market of drugs, and I'll decide who I wish to interact via non-aggression and personal contract.
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