Heroin Crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/06/28/a-council-members-solution-to-his-ohio-towns-overdose-problem-let-addicts-die/?utm_term=.fd2f7d138d5e This guy is a total idiot and a moron. He is a typical no nothing politician who  should read a few books about the disease of addiction. His quote- "An addict obviously doesn't care about his life" So the solution to his financially drained city is to possibly not respond to od's and let the patient die? He should get together with Bill Gates and work on a business proposal on how to implement death panels effectively. Seriously what does this man really know about how much an addict cares about their own life and one of the four agreements is to never make assumptions. Typical apathetic bureaucrat and that is why he is in that position to begin with. Its either kickbacks or collusion, self aggrandizement or ignorant comments, these people are mostly all cut from the same cloth. Its a financial drain on the city as well as the country but there are much better solutions to this opiate epidemic. There is a fine line between decriminalizing drugs and harsh penalties, drugs should be decriminalized but there should also be consequences as far as mandatory treatment. An od should be treated as a potential crime scene but only to punish the dealer not the user. The chronic recidivist od patient should get a Marchman Act, that is why interventions need to be done and records should be kept. Actually after the first od people should get a Marchman Act. If you almost die and in many cases actually do then that should be enough to green light a treatment program. This is also why more publically funded facilities need to be opened. Not everybody has insurance or money for expensive rehabs however people can get sober by other means. The ems units and er rooms seem to be inundated with ods, these people shouldn't be left back out on the streets left to their own devices. That is why family members need to get involved to sign off on these Marchman Acts. Treatment is a place of discovery, recovery can happen once they leave but everybody deserves that chance to get better. This is not a joke, so this councilman just wants to not send an ems unit for another od to let the patient die? Consequences in the form of treatment not community service and then these people can see that they have a reason to live with positive support groups after treatment. This kind of paperwork should already be initiated in the system so why this new health care act is going to cut funding for publically funded treatment facilities is beyond me. Detox's and psych wards are basically the same thing, these od patients need more then a 3 day hiatus from their addiction. Actually many of these people are left out of the er room right away after they od and after many were actually resurrected from the dead by Narcan. If somebody ods then they are a threat to themselves and others because lets face it if somebody ods and dies right in front of you then this is going to cause emotional distress. 3 to 4 day detoxes are not enough, people need to decompress in a either a facility or a strict sober home with 24/7 techs or sober companions to make sure that they don't get any more dope. The power to kill oneself has to be taken away from these people for a while and this should be implemented after their first od, this way they can clear up enough to decide if they want to live and get and stay sober. This isn't like the olden days of alcoholism where people had to come to that realization themselves outside of the rooms. This heroin epidemic is taking the disease of addiction to an entirely different level. A lot of the fentanyl and carfentanil is coming in from the Dark Web. Cities that are going into the red like the one in Ohio need more funding for treatment and for ems calls and they also need smarter councilman for starters.