llama66 llama66:
Great. They're evolving. Soon, they'll be immune to our attempts to save them.
And that would then be called natural selection.
These people don't want help because if they did they'd be seeking it after their first or second near death experience. What they and unfortunately the system wants is for them to stay high on their drug of choice and it doesn't matter how much Naloxone we have to use to keep them upright they'll just keep going right back to it.
The problem isn't the junkies it's the system. They know that there in growth industry and there are a myriad of people out there who rely on them staying alive for their jobs. So, there'll almost always be someone around to restart their heart because, without their addiction the social services industry would come to a grinding halt and might just take the economy along with it.
Trouble is with letting these people use without a real attempt at getting them into rehab or to stop means that at some point tolerance to the overdose treatment is going to develop and when that happens they'll start dying off in even greater numbers than they are now which is what's happening.