A tragic story that is playing out all over this country.
With these newer and more dangerous drugs today, I'm not so sure the users will ever be able to fully recover. It seems their brains are permanently damaged.
Eddie and Chris are good looking men. A shame where they have ended up as well as the others in this story. I hope things turn out better for them.
As a healthcare worker who has administered narcotics all my career, this is such a disturbing article. “Harm reduction “ in the medical field is making sure you only administer a dose of narcotics that relieves pain, not enough to stop breathing. You can’t always relieve all the pain or a person will stop breathing. So I would be considered negligent if I gave too much narcotics to a person just because they thought they needed it.
I know addiction is complicated but this whole program seems upside down. No one is helping someone by aiding their addiction. This used to be called enabling. They are sick and their addiction is bringing down the community they live in. And taxpayers are paying for this??
In my humble opinion “harm reduction” is facilitating killing these people.
As long as progressives think they're doing the right thing that's enough because it's really all about how they feel; analyzing results of what they do and how it affects others just isn't that important. And they will lie about it as well claiming ameliorating harm works or minors with mental health issues who don't get "gender affirming care" will commit suicide at a 50% rate. Wherever they govern its disfunction; crime, low test scores for schoolchildren, addicts taking over whole areas, and so on. But definitely vote Democratic in November.
Aren’t these the same people who wanted to get rid of plastic straws and bags? I can only imagine the environmental damage caused by the millions of discarded syringes all over cities…
progressives actions of anti racism are truly racist at heart. Similarly, these programs are ways to end the lives of addicts. That the programs also harm poor neighborhoods is just a bonus. We taxpayers are ultimately to blame as we sit idly by and let these programs exist and flourish.
It seems to me that the progressives don't side with the underdog, they side with the undeserving and losers of the world at the expense of the good and law abiding.......Starting to see a pattern here, I can see the similarity here of Hamas being the druggie, israel being the law abiding neighborhood resident.
And so it goes in progressive cities with progressive District Attorneys and progressive elected officials. Punish the law abiding and throw good money after bad.
Many of the Drug Addicts started with a choice. Once deep in addiction the "choice" may be beyond them or anyone, but they started with a choice. The children that were born to that neighborhood and the people who live their never had a choice. They just live with the consequences of other peoples bad decisions...
Oh, and drug addicts who actively use are not clean (pretend whatever nice thing you want, they are not clean)...
There is a misnomer here....there is no such thing as "harm reduction" when putting this crap into ones body. Just doesn't work that way, we are simply enabling the problem to not only fester but to multiply. Hard to argue with the results of this plan.
For any of the do gooders out there, I would tell them the same thing, I told my left leaning (and I am a moderate) nephew when we get into discussions on prison reform and policing tactics, " Go join Chicago, Philly, LAPD etc. and request to be assigned to the toughest precinct" to understand what is happening on the streets. Crickets.....By the way, Philly PD like may communities, is down hundreds (900 last I heard) of officers and the average tenure is three years.....One officer left Philly joined a nice suburban department where people wave and say "hi, how's the family" very supportive of local PD. Compared to his patrol in Philly and going after the drug dealers, who eventually put a bounty on him....easy decision to leave. Net result, the good folks trying to get through their day doing the right thing and working 2-3 jobs to keep the family together are the ones really paying the price.
Big surprise there. Imagine giving people the opportunity to do whatever the f they want leads to good outcomes. Anyone who has raised a child will tell you otherwise. Who let the retarded activists take the podium anyway.
A tragic story that is playing out all over this country.
With these newer and more dangerous drugs today, I'm not so sure the users will ever be able to fully recover. It seems their brains are permanently damaged.
Eddie and Chris are good looking men. A shame where they have ended up as well as the others in this story. I hope things turn out better for them.
This is terrific reporting.
Sonja Bingham is a hero
These activists should have the addicts placed in their neighborhoods
As a healthcare worker who has administered narcotics all my career, this is such a disturbing article. “Harm reduction “ in the medical field is making sure you only administer a dose of narcotics that relieves pain, not enough to stop breathing. You can’t always relieve all the pain or a person will stop breathing. So I would be considered negligent if I gave too much narcotics to a person just because they thought they needed it.
I know addiction is complicated but this whole program seems upside down. No one is helping someone by aiding their addiction. This used to be called enabling. They are sick and their addiction is bringing down the community they live in. And taxpayers are paying for this??
In my humble opinion “harm reduction” is facilitating killing these people.
As long as progressives think they're doing the right thing that's enough because it's really all about how they feel; analyzing results of what they do and how it affects others just isn't that important. And they will lie about it as well claiming ameliorating harm works or minors with mental health issues who don't get "gender affirming care" will commit suicide at a 50% rate. Wherever they govern its disfunction; crime, low test scores for schoolchildren, addicts taking over whole areas, and so on. But definitely vote Democratic in November.
“ “First of all, our friends aren’t dirty,” she replied.”
Once again, you ask me to believe things that my eyes say are clearly untrue. Get real, then you can start.
Aren’t these the same people who wanted to get rid of plastic straws and bags? I can only imagine the environmental damage caused by the millions of discarded syringes all over cities…
progressives actions of anti racism are truly racist at heart. Similarly, these programs are ways to end the lives of addicts. That the programs also harm poor neighborhoods is just a bonus. We taxpayers are ultimately to blame as we sit idly by and let these programs exist and flourish.
It seems to me that the progressives don't side with the underdog, they side with the undeserving and losers of the world at the expense of the good and law abiding.......Starting to see a pattern here, I can see the similarity here of Hamas being the druggie, israel being the law abiding neighborhood resident.
And so it goes in progressive cities with progressive District Attorneys and progressive elected officials. Punish the law abiding and throw good money after bad.
Many of the Drug Addicts started with a choice. Once deep in addiction the "choice" may be beyond them or anyone, but they started with a choice. The children that were born to that neighborhood and the people who live their never had a choice. They just live with the consequences of other peoples bad decisions...
Oh, and drug addicts who actively use are not clean (pretend whatever nice thing you want, they are not clean)...
So a lady that overcame addiction by, in her own words, giving I everything she had, now actively works to stop people from doing that?
There is a misnomer here....there is no such thing as "harm reduction" when putting this crap into ones body. Just doesn't work that way, we are simply enabling the problem to not only fester but to multiply. Hard to argue with the results of this plan.
For any of the do gooders out there, I would tell them the same thing, I told my left leaning (and I am a moderate) nephew when we get into discussions on prison reform and policing tactics, " Go join Chicago, Philly, LAPD etc. and request to be assigned to the toughest precinct" to understand what is happening on the streets. Crickets.....By the way, Philly PD like may communities, is down hundreds (900 last I heard) of officers and the average tenure is three years.....One officer left Philly joined a nice suburban department where people wave and say "hi, how's the family" very supportive of local PD. Compared to his patrol in Philly and going after the drug dealers, who eventually put a bounty on him....easy decision to leave. Net result, the good folks trying to get through their day doing the right thing and working 2-3 jobs to keep the family together are the ones really paying the price.
Big surprise there. Imagine giving people the opportunity to do whatever the f they want leads to good outcomes. Anyone who has raised a child will tell you otherwise. Who let the retarded activists take the podium anyway.
Great story, Olivia. It even had actual photojournalism, and not just people posing for portraits.🎉