(06-29-2017, 02:36 PM)Dumptruck Wrote: I live in Huntington, WV (basically ground zero for the heroin crisis). A quarter of the people who live in the county are on heroin. No exaggeration, you can look it up. The heroin zombies are nodding off behind the wheel and running into people left and right. An elderly fella was ran off of a bridge after a couple OD'd behind the wheel. He died from his injuries later.  I get sick of seeing these people get narcan and go right back to what they were up to before.

My wife is a cardiac nurse. The majority of her patients used to be elderly folks. Now, they are primarily IV drug users who have burned up a heart valve. Medicaid pays for them to get valve replacements so they get a new valve to burn up on our dime. Between narcan and medicaid, they have zero consequences for their actions.

So the part of me that is sick of dealing with these pieces of garbage says that three strikes sounds good. However, no medical professional is allowed to let some heroin junkie die.

I understand your frustration and feeling regarding the "three strikes" law, but at the same time I personally couldn't just let someone die because of a psychological/physiological disease.  It goes back to actually helping these people overcome the need to put dangerous chemicals into their bodies.  Yes I know, alcohol and nicotine are also dangerous chemicals that people put into their bodies (including myself) but it's not the same thing.

Allowing someone to die without helping them or attempting to help them is just not the moral or right thing to do.

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