You know what I’m getting sick of? All these Press reports of some new illegal (or even legal) street drug which fucks up the (ab)user horribly.
It started with PCP (a horse tranquilizer), continued with crack cocaine, and now we have the flesh-eating drug (xylazine*) and “monkey dust” (to name but some), all of which have dire consequences for the user — which would be fine by me, except that people who take this shit don’t kill themselves with the first dose, alas, but instead go berserk and screw up other people’s innocent lives, like this prime specimen did.
I’m not interested in seeing newspaper pictures of people in Seattle or San Francisco or Manchester or London lying in the streets, bodies contorted by the effects of this new plague-drug as their systems slip into dementia or decay.
Not fucking interested. Let them all die, because it’s clear that they want to. Just throw more and more of their drugs of choice at them, and let them carry on. No hospital services, no medical care of any kind other than the drugs.
Yeah, it’s Krool & Hartless, and people are going to start wailing and moaning. But at some point, decent citizens have to say “Enough is enough” and refuse to enable this human waste matter to pollute our streets and neighborhoods.
Let them go.
* Xylazine adds multiple layers of complexity to an already treacherous drug crisis. Xylazine is a depressant. It slows a person’s breathing and heart rate, and lowers their blood pressure. An overdose can put them into a coma-like state, leaving them frozen and vulnerable for hours on the street.
Xylazine has an especially devastating side effect: gruesome wounds that don’t heal. The exact reason for this still isn’t understood, but scientists suspect xylazine could be affecting blood circulation in a way that affects skin repair. That means that for someone using xylazine, something as small as a pimple or a needle puncture could turn into large sores of dying flesh, in some cases eating through to the bone.
Remember: nobody’s forcing this shit into people’s bodies — they’re doing it all by themselves. Fuck ’em.
“The Authorities” are taking in bazillions of doses of fentanyl on a near daily basis. why not put the FBI to good use back out on the streets redistributing the stuff to those who want it? “But it’s deadly,” cry the whiners!
SO???
Just a thought.
My mother once offered that we should just legalize all those damned drugs and let the problem cure itself. She figured it would take about two years. I am not sure about the time frame but I agree with the sentiment. One measure of a civilization is how it treats children, the elderly, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. Idiots who willingly abuse drugs — including alcohol — need not apply.
I guess I am getting old.
One definition of enabler is: “someone who persistently behaves in enabling ways, justifying or indirectly supporting someone else’s potentially harmful behavior.”
When someone tries to “save” these addicts, they are enabling their addiction. We have to stop enabling addicts, whether it’s stopping giving them money, resources (free housing!), or even health care. If they want to do this crap, let them. And let the chips fall where they may.
There’s a urban story here in New England about a junkie in Manchester, NH who was revived with Narcan by local EMTs 3 times in 24 hours.
Kim, I concur with your position on this. These individuals are dying via a slow motion train wreck. Give them what they want in medically pure form and let them make the decision. Cheaper all around and we could maybe get the DEA reduced in size if not eliminated.
it happened in 2018 or 2019 in New Haven not far from Yale. K2 I think was the drug going around or something like that. EMS picked up a doper from the New Haven green, brought to Yale New Haven Hospital, revived, released then brought back later that day for the same thing.
JQ
I’ve advocated for this for years (and I am a practicing Christian and its not that popular of an opinion).
Create hotels with sealed Stainless Steel cubicles, person checks in, is locked in, given the drug of their choice, and when they OD and die, the meat wagon comes and gets them, the cubicle is hosed down for the next resident. Said junkie would have to pay for the stay, but it would be 100% legal, but with the understanding that no one is coming to help you, you will be unmonitored and other than the drug distro, no human interaction.
Maybe include an eye bolt in the ceiling and give everyone entering a 3 ft length of rope. To hurry things along.
Had a co worker years ago who described college parties she attended in the
mid-late 70’s, where attendees would bring whatever prescription meds
they could find, dump them all into a bowl and they would all start taking
pills randomly until something happened !! Insane on top of stupid.
She was a left wing loon ( remember I said college ) and probably still is.
There are people ( apparently a growing number of them ) who will put
ANYTHING in their mouth just to see what happens !
Agreed. Remove all barriers between junkies & their fix of choice. It’s already our de facto policy re: the opioid epidemic. We know of a certainty the Southern border is the widest of wide-open gateways thanks to Brandon & his ilk – an ilk that includes the spinless pussies in the GOP with their sanctimonious lip service & faux outrage & nothing more.
I agree with legalising the lot. However, I do think the state should help those who want to come off these highly addictive drugs. Everyone makes mistakes and turning an addict into a productive and tax-paying citizen is a win for everyone.
But they’ve got to want it.
Sadly sometimes people get forcibly exposed to drugs.
For example my best friend’s wife 2 months ago got poisoned with a high dose of heroin and almost died.
A racist (they’re Japanese living in the US, getting a lot of hatred because of it) waitress at a truck stop laced her coffee with it when she was stopping to rest during a road trip.
She nearly died, and has been spending the last 2 months almost in rehab, should be clean in another month or two according to her doctors.
Waitress got arrested, is going to prison for 15 years for attempted homicide and possession of heroin.
Xylazine has other trait that makes it especially dangerous in the current day, as it is not an opioid it dos not respond to Narcan which is typically given to those who overdose. A guy who lives near me in central PA is an ex-addict who still has family in Philadelphia, he does a lot of outreach with addicts in the Kensington neighborhood which is pretty much ground zero for all of this garbage and posts brutally explicit videos on YouTube. The power that crap has on people really hits you when you see a guy who has a hole near his ankle you can see muscles moving inside of who just got out of the hospital for an infection in another location who looks like a decaying zombie say that the effects have him “thinking” about getting help.
Addict jokes with staff as they remove his leg:
https://youtu.be/JuNWyq5MgQw
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Staff is using a ‘gigli saw’.
Although power tools are often used in amputations, a gigli reduces heat transfer to nearby tissue and leaves a cleaner end on the eventual stump.
Gigli saw? That looked like a survivalist’s wire saw, or the saw veterinarians use to dehorn cattle.
Maybe a giggly saw given the addict’s response to his procedure.
I’m late here, but I am happy to point out that leftists believe fervently in “Evolution”, so lets give them plenty of it, good and hard.