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The Cook County Jail in Chicago, IL has trained hundreds of inmates on how to use the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone, and has given doses out to inmates upon release:
Cook County now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to combatting the nation's opioid epidemic.
Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the country, has trained about 900 inmates how to use naloxone nasal spray devices since last summer and has distributed 400 of them to at-risk men and women as they got out. The devices can undo the effects of an opiate overdose almost immediately and are identical to those used by officers in many of the country's law enforcement agencies.
[...] It is too soon to gauge the effectiveness of Cook County's program, but Dart said anecdotal evidence suggests that the kits have saved lives, including a man who was arrested again, returned to jail, and told of how a friend he had trained to use the kit had done so when he overdosed. In New York City, more than 4,000 kits have been distributed to friends and relatives of inmates at the city's jail at Rikers Island since the program there was launched in 2014.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @06:26PM
Like handing out free condoms to teenagers is a good idea. Since opioid addiction is addictive like sex is hormonal.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @06:49PM (8 children)
Sorry for being blunt. But if the overdose were not prevented then there would be less crime and less jail costs?
There's a reason why people go to jail normally. And that is because someone else is a victim. So less overdoses prevented saves people from more violent crime done to get money for drugs.
More than 4000 people will suffer robberies etc?
Sometimes supposedly good deeds have negative consequences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @06:57PM (5 children)
Less recidivism means less funding. Think of the jails which might close down without offenders to fill them. Think of the correction officers who have families and bills to pay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:09PM
I think we spotted a double case of perverted incentives..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:58PM (3 children)
Maybe, but the fact remains dead criminals = less crime.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:16PM (2 children)
Dead niggers = less crime.
Firebomb the South Side!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:31PM (1 child)
The niggers don't stay on their side of town anymore. They're slowly migrating north as urban decay depopulates the city. Chicago will be the next Detroit but the effect is less immediately noticeable because the Chicago is just so damn big.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday July 31 2017, @11:54PM
Can't they just put up a big wall?
Kind of like the one in North Ireland.
(Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday July 31 2017, @08:13PM (1 child)
Can we get better trolls in here? I mean this is just bad trolling.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:58PM
People who disagree with you aren't categorically trolls. Have you ever heard of Nietzsche?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Monday July 31 2017, @06:58PM (13 children)
People taking that stuff obviously want to die, so why are we meddling? It is evolution in action.
Seriously, we are spending a lot of money rolling emergency services to these junkies, in many cases many times, and most eventually succeed in killing themselves eventually. Show me a treatment regime where at least half the junkies end up tax paying productive citizens within two years and I could be convinced to support expending dwindling tax resources on them. Otherwise I can't improve upon; "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:02PM
Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? Oh wait.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 31 2017, @07:16PM (6 children)
I've attempted in a serious way twice.
However psychiatric treatment got me back to work. I'm now a tax paying citizen.
I'm not an addict but "the mentally ill" is commonly said in sentences that include "addicts".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:53PM (5 children)
There's a big difference... You're a good guy, the others are not and most of them will commit serious crimes again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:23PM (4 children)
MDC has charmed you with his gift of the gab, proving yet again that sociable extroverts always win. Why don't you give personality tests in school, brand the introverts as losers, and fucking kill them all to put the bad shits out of their misery before they commit crimes against your society where bullshitters are the good guys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @09:26PM (3 children)
That's funny considering I'm an INTJ, graduated from high school with honors, four women fell in love with me within 4 years, educated myself because I couldn't afford a higher education, started working at 14 and went full time the day after graduation, worked my ass off, raised a family with 4 kids without govt assistance, bought a house in SoCal and paid off the mortgage in 13 years, and was able to retire at age 55.
What were you saying about introverts again?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday July 31 2017, @11:57PM
This means you were born 1962 or earlier. In those times introverts had a better opportunity in some ways. And the job opportunities were different.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)
Congratulations for being able to rote memorize a bunch of information and spew it all back on assignments and tests on command.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:47PM
I didn't study before finals or any other test, and didn't start assignments until the last minute. Also I think the I's have a better grip on life and love than the E's who just blissfully skate through life ignorantly.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:21PM (2 children)
No they do not obviously want to die, otherwise they wouldn't be taking a pleasure drug more than once.
There is something seriously wrong with you and quite a few others on this site. The solutions proposed by people like you are often the first steps towards crimes against humanity.
Try to embody the positive traits of humanity like compassion and charity instead of cynicism and hate.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:35PM (1 child)
Kill yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:18PM
You first :D
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:34AM
<sarcasm>Ummm... have you tried distributing cyanide?
You can pose as their benefactor at a much cheaper price. </sarcasm>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @08:53PM
I know a guy who got off opiods and is now a teacher.
So, basically, if you think people who get addicted to drugs are worthless and/or beyond help, think again.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:45PM (13 children)
When the goal is less junkies, it makes no sense to prolong the lives of junkies.
The use of heroin is a voluntary act of will. Actions have consequences.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday July 31 2017, @08:15PM (4 children)
And addiction isn't a thing, obviously.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:35PM (3 children)
Addiction requires a conscious decision to engage in the first, second, and subsequent instances of a behavior.
This whole "addiction is a disease" bullshit is just a money-mill for the headshrinkers and an excuse for SJW's to canonize more "victims".
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Arik on Monday July 31 2017, @11:34PM (2 children)
Yet many addicts have gotten their first doses while *un*conscious and unable even to give or deny consent.
Something doesn't add up there, in fact it's clear you're quite simply wrong. Drugs have their effects, including addiction, without regard to consent.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:54PM
Nu-uh! The world is just! Life is fair! Kill them all! Kill everybody at the first sign they need help!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:41AM
Congratulations! You have finally figured out why legalizing hard drugs is a terrible, suicidal idea.
The issue you describe will, and has historically, skyrocketed when hard drugs were legal. Cocaine, heroin, etc.
Read some history!
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:21PM (3 children)
I guess you've never had a family member struggle with addiction, or fall on hard times.
Junkies are not the problem, they should only be a problem to themselves. But add the drug war and now you have tons of self-created problems. Answer: legalize drugs, spend taxes on rehab / support programs.
But most likely you're one of the many brainwashed fools who believe the war on drugs is a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:31PM (2 children)
Piss off. Your sister is probably a crack whore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:40PM (1 child)
And your father smelt of elderberries.
I see the shithead troll is back, my guess is an angsty teenager trying to achieve EDGE LORD status.
Keep going kiddo, one day you also can be reviled and picked up by the FBI.
(Score: 2, Troll) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:40AM
FTFY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:07AM (3 children)
The problem is not the prolonging of their lives. The problem is that they provide a quick fix for a side effect symptom. What should be done is to do away with jail sentences and put drug addicts into forced rehabilitation. Release upon successful treatment. Then they won't need the quick fix and there will be a lot less crime.
But it needs to deal with addiction. AND the underlying problems that pushed the person into the addiction to cover up the underlying problem they could not handle on their own. That unfortunately will collide with the punish them hard mindset. And treat them like humans even though they won't treat others that way always.
It's kind of funny how when it comes to other problems. There will be analyze and trying different methods. And do what has been proven to work. Except for crimes. Then it's punish and revenge. And if it didn't work.. try the same again and expect a different result.
Don't ever let scientific method stand in the way of tribal instinct! ;-)
(Score: 2, Troll) by jmorris on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:41AM (2 children)
Where do you live where unproductive or outright defective practices are examined and changed? What are your immigration laws?
Our war on poverty created more poverty, encourages people to remain mired in the web of the welfare state. Any suggestion that we might have made a wrong turn there only gets you labeled a hater.
If tax and spend, socialism lite, could create prosperity we would have one example in the world to hold up by now. Good luck getting any elected official to consider stopping.
No matter how many times it is shown that simply increasing the minimum wage increases unemployment and generally hurts the people it is intended to help, the fact it is a vote getter means it keeps happening.
And so on. Seriously, show me a modern example where we actually learn from a mistake. I need some good news, it ain't fun being an Eeyore .
(Score: 2, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @04:26AM
Your? But of course. Because you just make-believe playing you are doing it.
Like the Scandinavian countries, you mean? Or Germany, which can afford to offer free tertiary education for anyone that wants it, foreigners included?
Riiiight! They obviously failed, they are only social-democracies and this didn't even defend them against opening a Surströmming in a public place [thelocal.se] (or... was it the Bowling Green Massacre [wikipedia.org]?).
You aren't able to learn from your own mistakes, much less from other's successes [soylentnews.org]
(e.g. while 900 people died of drug overdoses in British Columbia [soylentnews.org] from a population of 4.6 million, Spain managed to have a 556 drug-induced deaths in a population of 46.77 million, spending 0.03% of their GDP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by sjames on Tuesday August 01 2017, @04:50AM
The problem isn't social programs. The problem is sabotaged social programs. Giving poor people aid is helpful. Demanding that they aren't allowed to have any savings and that they be cut off the instant they show the slightest sign of improvement keeps them poor. So quit sabotaging the social programs and perhaps we can make some progress.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @09:39PM (1 child)
I don't know which is more offensive, treating criminals like human beings or treating drug addicts like human beings.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:56PM
Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill them all!
Trump! Trump! Trump!
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:28AM
I'll just let this (PDF) one [europa.eu] here for anyone really interested (Spain country drug report 2017).
The TL;DR:
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Some extensive excerpts with my emphasis and [addenda]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford