Posted on 09/27/2023 7:20:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Word that New York City set a drug-overdose death-toll record last year was underscored this week by Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan’s proposal that everybody now pack an OD rescue kit.
“You should be carrying Narcan right now,” he says. “Narcan needs to be everywhere.”
That’s so you’ll be prepared in case you’re strolling through Tompkins Square Park one sunny afternoon, and notice someone flaked out on a bench looking seriously overdosed.
You’ll reach for your Narcan holster and come to the rescue (even though, given Tompkins’ clientele, you’ll doubtless need a much bigger holster.)
Hey — it takes a village, right?
Vasan also is, please excuse the expression, the brains behind Gotham’s city-sponsored “safe-injection” drug shoot-up sites and its “public health” vending machines — which pump out free syringes, clean needles and crack pipes to all comers.
And they say assisted suicide is illegal in New York.
Of course, not every bum on a bench is an opioid junkie — some prefer, say, Budweiser.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And next the liability civil torts will be filed against individuals for practicing without a license, for possible misuse of a drug, and more.
Ain't gonna happen.
Everybody needs to carry a NEVER vote ‘Rat or GOPee card.
“Geez I keep jumper cables and a first aid kit in the car. Isn’t that enough?!”
Won’t your cables leave third degree burns on their nipples?
On a side note, we have a vending machine that dispenses NARCON. Not sure anyone utilizes it though.
“Narcan, sorry....”
Citizens On Patrol
Should be carrying a weapon to defend yourself.
If the givernment would reschedule the class II drugs they reclassified in 2014 back schedule III drugs then people could go back to popping vicodin and soma without dying
>>Providing addicts with crash pads and free paraphernalia — with everything but the drugs themselves — helps nobody but the fat-cat criminals at the top of the narcotics supply chain.
So provide the junkies with fentanyl, which is dirt cheap to produce. Provide it in standardized dosages, so that it is relatively safe. Take all the profit from the fat-cat criminals. Remove the crime that junkies do to pay for their habit. And when they deteriorate and die, bury them.
To me the problem just seems like a self licking ice cream cone. Narcan them and save them one day, a day, a month a year later same same.
I have ZERO sympathy for ALL druggies!
If you “shoot up,” and OD, no skin off my ass!
Sorry!
I am guessing whoever holds the patents on Narcan is a big Democrat donor...
Yeah, no on giving random junkies Narcan as a civilian. I trained as a paramedic and we were always taught never to give too much Narcan as when they wake up, they are going to be mad and want to fight.
Let the cops, medics and caring family members carry it. Normal people don’t need to be involved.
There’s only one thing everyone needs to *carry* and narcan ain’t it.
You, too, huh?
My friend was a real trailblazer: After making a constant nuisance of himself (e.g., begging in the streets, shooting up in playgrounds, etc.) in a certain Noe Valley shopping area for a couple of months, back in the late-80s/early-90s, the townspeople (mostly local merchants) finally banded together and formed a committee to combat the "Gary the Panhandler"-problem. (Their banner sported his profile with the international "forbidden!" symbol over it!)
Yes, he had achieved "stardom" and "celebrity" at last! He had become the "face" of the anti-vagrant movement!
At the same time, the San Francisco Chronicle was interviewing him and assiduously recording and publishing his "insights" on how society should be "more compassionate," and that America resembled the "late stages of the Roman Empire."
My friend - whom I had known since junior high school - had always been a bit "twitchy." But I was nonetheless extremely surprised when I learned of this: He had namely been a vocal tea-totaller and natural-food freak up into his mid-20s, had moved to SF to work as a computer programmer for a big vitamin company, etc.
I suppose that I should add that he eventually had a run-in with the Law, was ordered to undergo rehabilitation, eventually succeeded, and became a taxi-driver in SF for a couple of years - before dying of "acute renal failure" (consequence of AIDS?) in 2008, at the age of 51.
Regards,
Same.
All of these problems would just go away if we legalized drugs. /s
Im not carrying it. If you decide to do the fentanyl 2-step around me you’re hosed.
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