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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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Needle clinics have the assumption that the user is going to use, and therefore if that is a given, then the user has 2 options: 1. A dirty needle they are sharing with others, or 2. A clean needle
Using a dirty needle, especially with a drug like meth, means pushing bacteria directly into your bloodstream while flooding your body with a drug that suppresses your immune system’s ability to fight infection more strongly than any other. No drug suppresses the immune system’s infection-fighting like meth, which is why meth and MRSA/staph are so common together
The result is a life-threatening and extremely expensive hospitalization. The ones I’ve seen in my job numerous times the bacteria destroyed parts of people’s hearts and they required heart surgery and valves put in and stuff. These are almost always unemployed addicts, so the state Medicaid insurance foots the $500,000+ bill for that
So it’s to prevent that suffering for the addict but moreso to save the state money. I don’t have a huge problem with them but I can understand how people would see it as enabling
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Just give them more fentanyl until the pain stops entirely.
Why are we forcing these people to live? Why do they deserve to live when so many honest hardworking abled folk struggle to live.
If the doctor read my chart and said---- hey buddy it looks like you have an addiction, three suicide attempts, 6 psychiatric hospitalizations, and have been unemployed for a decade. It's time to go.
I'd be like yes, man no shit.
Why are humans so fucking bad at this?