Opioid crisis got worse thanks to Obamacare

[SunsetBengal]

(07-02-2017, 11:37 AM)Millhouse Wrote: A Middletown, OH councilman proposes for his area that a heroin user can only be revived two times (I am guessing yearly?) by ems squads with the drug Narcan. Any time after that though, they would be on their own. 

As harsh and cruel as that may sound to some people, I am all for it because at some point allowing natural selection to run its course might be a good thing for society in the long run. But also because of the money and strain it causes on local cities like Middletown where I read they pay about $100k a year on the Narcan revival drug, which is 10 times the amount they are budgeted for. And spend 1.5 million a year just on heroin addicts overdosing in total cost. (article below)

So my question to folks here is what do you think the limit should be on reviving a heroin addict, or should there be a limit? And should an heroin overdose take second priority for EMS squads if other emergencies are happening at the same time? I say yes for sure on the this.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/28/ohio-councilman-suggests-three-strikes-law-halt-overdose-rescues/434920001/

I'm sure that situation in Middletown will prompt a good bit of discussion on just burden should Government be held accountable for, to save people from their own poor life choices.  Some will claim that these people are sick, with a disease, and deserve our fullest compassion.  Others, like myself, will claim that these people made a conscious choice to endanger their lives, and should be allowed to run their course to their own undoing.