Word that NYC set a drug-overdose death-toll record last year was underscored this week by the health commissioner’s proposal that everybody now pack an OD rescue kit.
And they say assisted suicide is illegal in New York.And a lot of them probably would resent being stabbed with a Narcan needle by a total stranger.But that’s not really the point.
As a matter of municipal policy, isn’t it time to recognize that most junkies essentially are victims of themselves — and that they simply won’t be denied?Providing addicts with crash pads and free paraphernalia — with everything but the drugs themselves — helps nobody but the fat-cat criminals at the top of the narcotics supply chain.
And, of course, the low-level types retailing junk to the streets; they’ve especially prospered since urban America decided that public spaces stuffed full of nodded-out addicts are preferrable to vigorous law enforcement and appropriately severe prison sentences.Consider this: Some 3,000-plus New Yorkers died from drug overdoses in 2022 — slightly more than the 2,990 murdered on 9/11.
But while 9/11 convulsed the nation — and certainly the city — all last year’s OD tally has produced is mild tut-tutting from the usual suspects and Ashwin Vasan’s other-worldly Narcan-in-every-back-pocket proposal.
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