Why not just let the drug addicts go by the wayside and have meds on hand for those who NEED it?
Do you know the symptoms for somebody who needs insulin? Do you know how much to give to help, without giving too much to harm?
You know, statistically speaking, those drug addicts that you want to “go by the wayside” probably include numerous of your family and friends. So you might want to have a little compassion, like–you know–most police.
To address the actual issue, insulin is less often needed, more expensive, goes bad in about a month, and usually isn’t needed so fast that there’s no time to wait for an ambulance, and requires more careful dosing.
“Go by the wayside.” You can’t even say it. You want people you don’t know to just die. Why?
And addicts need Narcan at least as much as diabetics need insulin, so why the scare caps?
Probably because the number of diabetics in emergency need of insulin are tremendously dwarfed by the number of drug addicts who have overdosed. At least as far as who the police encounter as part of their jobs. 1
Heroin is bad M’kay? You won’t find my family or friends in your statistics.
So, Let me rephrase my question…
Why not then have cops carry a dripping syringe full of Heroin and shoot it straight into the scumbags who really NEED it and get it over?
Because some people are capable of doing a cost-benefit analysis without letting some childish “KILL THE DRUGGIES” impulse tip the scales.
Most people can ignore childish impulses. You know that, right?
Possibly because heroin is bad, Mkay?
Look, you’re trying to tell us that you’d like to live in a country in which the police regularly murder drug users. This country exists. Nobody will prevent you from applying for a migrant visa. Off you go!
That’s nice, dear. Even if that were true, Heroin isn’t the only opiate.
Addicts don’t need heroin, they need Narcan. Besides, heroin is illegal.
One of today’s news headlines reported about Kim Kardashian’s hair, go figure.
Why is being a Heroin addict so glorified?
Non sequiturs are a childish impulse.
So’s complaining about The Media Today.
Because it is not the job of peace officers to act as executioners for people who suffer from addiction. The notion that addiction to opioids is some kind of moral failing is so far divorced from the neurophysiology and affective disorders that it is difficult to know where to begin. The brain produces natural (endogenous) opioids and people who become addicted have a difficulty in regulating them, or suffer affective disorders in which excessive consumption of opioids is the only palliative. There are some genetic predispositions to become an opioid addict but virtually anyone can become physiologically dependent upon opioids even under supervised use, and they operate at a level of neural functioning that you can’t just ‘think away’; the brain literally has to reset its management of opioid peptides to recover from opioid dependency, and if you happen to have a genetic or development tendency toward disorder (i.e. depression, seasonal affective disorder, et cetera) it can be very difficult to control the innate demand for the euphoria and sense of well-being that opioids provide. “But for the grace of God” goes your “family or friends”, or for that matter, you. That addicts will do pretty much anything to get their hands on more opioids is frustrating and heartbreaking, but it speaks to a need to better understand the brain dysfunction and how to more effectively treat addiction rather than arbitrarily killing addicts.
As others have noted, not only does insulin have a very limited shelf life, but it is very easy to accidentally kill someone with an overdose of insulin, whereas someone suffering from hyperglycemia is probably not in a life-threatening state. In First Responder and EMT training, we are taught not to administer insulin even if the patient has it on them unless they are conscious and indicate that they need an injection because it is far more likely that you’ll put a patient in a coma or kill them with excess insulin than for them to die from hyperglycemia in the period which they could be transferred to care and diagnosis by a physician or nurse practitioner.
Please make the effort do some basic research and learn something about a topic before posting a grotesquely offensive opinion about wantonly killing a bunch of people out of base ignorance.
Stranger
getting hot in here… A Non non sequitur here would be The statement that I think All Heroin addict should be left to their own devices and die. Period.
Thank you, have a nice day
Yeah, it’s pretty clear you don’t actually want to learn anything or have an informed opinion on the topic. There are other online forums that welcome that kind of blithe ignorance, but you might want to take a look at the tagline in the red band below the title.
Stranger
I am a type 1 diabetic. I cannot think of one occurrence where I would need insulin given to me by a heavy handed LEO. No, thanks, I will wait on EMTs.
And before you judge me for being diabetic. I am a Juvenile (type 1) diabetic. I am not obese or older. I was born this way.
Narcan is an important tool for the mean streets. I applaud it’s use.
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Learn what? I’m telling YOU that I think Heroin addicts are a bane on society and you’re gonna call me out on it?
How about you start by explaining exactly why you think heroin addicts are a bane on society.