Buy the Naxalone by the gallon.
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“Buy the Naxalone by the gallon.”
According someone I met who ran an ambulance company, the first thing that happens when you administer Naloxone to a junkie who has OD’ed is they are pissed that you messed up their high.
This is tilting at windmills. Once you put responsibility on society (to administer Naloxone), not the drug user, you get a geometrically exploding problem with no solution.
It’s very likely these people will die if they are not immediately incarcerated.
If you cut off the drug supply you will have exploding crime.
If you don’t cut off the drug supply you have a growing user base
If you treat them, they’ll be dependent on society forever and still probably use street drugs whenever they can.
If you don’t treat them, they will use whatever they are sold on the street.
Drug addiction is a long-term gig for government, which makes it so appealing to put junkies “on a program” which will never end, and the participants can pretend they care about people more than you do.
Every option is costly to society - except for letting them seal their own demise through the inevitable overdose, and even that one can be costly when children are involved.
No effective solutions are possible.