They say this like it’s a bad thing. Junkies are junkies BY CHOICE. Nobody stuck a gun to their heads and forced them to become junkies, but when they overdose they tie up ER resources that could be used by people with real emergencies like heart attacks, automobile crashes, strokes, shootings, etc. I have no problem with some half wit deciding to turn into a zombie who lives for drugs. What I have a big problem is when these junkies cause problems for others - stealing, robbing, squatting on someone else’s property, using up limited health care resources, sucking up our tax dollars, etc. Be a junkie if you want, but if you pass out in the street I’ll just walk around you and keep on going.
I went to Philadelphia once on a business trip. The Avis people gave me a pamphlet on how to handle a carjacking. I decided not to go there ever again.
All a result of America’s open border policies and our federal law enforcement agencies turning a blind eye to the drugs that are flowing across the border. In addition the Soros appointed prosecutors refuse to charge the criminals with drug crimes but instead return them to the streets asap. Many times the thugs are awarded damages for being troubled by an arrest in the first place.
By the way, I thought “social justice workers” were supposed to solve this problem. What happened?
Biden’s Camelot.
I confess that I am increasingly Darwinian about this. These drugs are so potent and the users so derelict that there is no use even trying to save them. Let them winnow themselves out of society.
Deal it? Death Penalty.
I’m guessing the main problem is they’re taking enough and should be encouraged to take more.
Put 55-gal drums of the stuff on every street corner of the inner city. In 3-6 months the problem is solved.
A MAGA charity could move in, feed and get care for these people and harvest a lot of ballots for ‘24.
This must be area that they found Fetterman and ran him for the senate.... /s