I’m sorry but I have zero sympathy for these addicts. They made the choice to take drugs, they know there are multiple rehab pathways available to them and they’ll still continue to do it. Why don’t we do a story instead on how people are getting even sicker while waiting for ER care because these addicts are clogging up emergency care in this state? They come first, even though they got there by their own actions. Also, if you have chronic pain, or suffer an injury or have a surgery which leaves you in pain, they treat YOU like you’re the drug addict–not these frequent flyers of the ER who they see again and again and again. They are costing this state (and the other 49) millions per year and if history has taught us anything it’s that addicts will always find something to drug themselves with. Alcohol, coke, meth, opioids–wonder what the next big drug wave will be? Yes, addiction is an illness, I’m sorry for those who have lost loved ones this way, and I do have sympathy for them, but not for people who repeatedly overdose, expect the emergency responders to save them, and then repeat the cycle until they finally succeed in unaliving themselves. Don’t punish the innocent by prioritizing their care over everyone else’s. Don’t treat us all like we’re drug addicts and more importantly, don’t make us pay for their life (or death) choices. They chose to roll the dice, let them live or die with those consequences.
I lost a friend to fentanyl in 2013. She was NOT an addict. It was legally prescribed to her for back pain. It is the devil. I would not even classify her pain as severe or chronic-should never have been prescribed for her. Probably one of many reasons that it is no longer prescribed at all. All of the people dying now are not addicts. Some are victims of terroristic actions, domestic & foreign. So much of this crap is coming across an open, unprotected southern border. The current US administration cares ZERO about human lives other than their own. They do lip service to it in the name of your vote. And the same ones who say they care about women & children at the border will encourage the slaughter of our unborn. Wake up people.
So these “terroristic actions, domestic and foreign” are forcing people to take fentanyl? Literally, showing up at their house and forcing their mouths open and making them swallow it?
Your friend presumably got her RX from a legit pharmacy, not over the border in Mexico.
This continued insistence that the real villains are illegal immigrants are a bold leap away from the GOP’s usual stance for “personal responsibility”.
wtaylor201828001 Top fanOctober 14, 2023 at 2:49 pm
Contrarian opinion here. Yes, fentanyl is a horrible substance and my heart goes out to the families of those lost to it. But 90 overdose deaths in a year in York County? York County is home to roughly 300,000 people. Are other things causing more deaths?
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I’m sorry but I have zero sympathy for these addicts. They made the choice to take drugs, they know there are multiple rehab pathways available to them and they’ll still continue to do it. Why don’t we do a story instead on how people are getting even sicker while waiting for ER care because these addicts are clogging up emergency care in this state? They come first, even though they got there by their own actions. Also, if you have chronic pain, or suffer an injury or have a surgery which leaves you in pain, they treat YOU like you’re the drug addict–not these frequent flyers of the ER who they see again and again and again. They are costing this state (and the other 49) millions per year and if history has taught us anything it’s that addicts will always find something to drug themselves with. Alcohol, coke, meth, opioids–wonder what the next big drug wave will be? Yes, addiction is an illness, I’m sorry for those who have lost loved ones this way, and I do have sympathy for them, but not for people who repeatedly overdose, expect the emergency responders to save them, and then repeat the cycle until they finally succeed in unaliving themselves. Don’t punish the innocent by prioritizing their care over everyone else’s. Don’t treat us all like we’re drug addicts and more importantly, don’t make us pay for their life (or death) choices. They chose to roll the dice, let them live or die with those consequences.
I lost a friend to fentanyl in 2013. She was NOT an addict. It was legally prescribed to her for back pain. It is the devil. I would not even classify her pain as severe or chronic-should never have been prescribed for her. Probably one of many reasons that it is no longer prescribed at all. All of the people dying now are not addicts. Some are victims of terroristic actions, domestic & foreign. So much of this crap is coming across an open, unprotected southern border. The current US administration cares ZERO about human lives other than their own. They do lip service to it in the name of your vote. And the same ones who say they care about women & children at the border will encourage the slaughter of our unborn. Wake up people.
So these “terroristic actions, domestic and foreign” are forcing people to take fentanyl? Literally, showing up at their house and forcing their mouths open and making them swallow it?
Your friend presumably got her RX from a legit pharmacy, not over the border in Mexico.
This continued insistence that the real villains are illegal immigrants are a bold leap away from the GOP’s usual stance for “personal responsibility”.
Contrarian opinion here. Yes, fentanyl is a horrible substance and my heart goes out to the families of those lost to it. But 90 overdose deaths in a year in York County? York County is home to roughly 300,000 people. Are other things causing more deaths?
Another fitsnews reacharound for LMC.
Legalize all drugs and the fentanyl problem goes away. You’re welcome.