The US Opioid Crisis

[*jason*]

(08-09-2017, 09:57 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Crack down on the border, lower the amount of pain pills prescribed, fully legalize pot as a pain alternative to pain pills.

Then stop rescuing people after their first overdose. It won't be a popular choice, but simply put, if one near-death experience from overdosing doesn't make you stop, you're just going to have to be saved again, and again, and again, and again.

Why does the number of drug users keep growing bigger and bigger? You keep saving their lives over and over. Meanwhile the cost keeps rising for the injected anti-OD drug, and that's not counting the cost of the ambulance itself, and the medical care they need, and the personnel, and the fact that if they're busy saving junkies from trying to kill themselves, they're not available to save someone who DOESN'T want to die.

I'm off the opinion that they save people from overdosing to prosecute them. Sure sometimes they they don't have anything else on them, but in a lot of cases they have paraphernalia, dope, stolen shit, or other drugs on their person. At first people may roll their eyes when I say this, but when my cousin was shot while on duty, her partner shot her assailant 5-6 times. They then rushed him to the hospital (spending all kinds of money to keep him alive) so they can prosecute him, and sentence him to 80 years.