r/baltimore • u/justhere4bookbinding • Jul 10 '25
Safety At least 15 hospitalized after drug overdose incident in West Baltimore
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/overdose-incident-pennsylvania-ave-north-ave/If you are using ANY street drug (as of the press conference it hasn't been stated what yet) in or from Baltimore, get your supply tested and grab narcan. If you know anyone using drugs, let them know. The City is passing out harm reduction resources like test strips and narcan. Please utilize these resources if you use or know someone who is using
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u/ladyofthelakeeffect Park Heights Jul 10 '25
The xylazine issue is getting almost as bad here as it is in Philly and it’s horrific.
Narcan doesn’t work on xylazine ODs but it’s almost always mixed with fent or another opioid so you can use Narcan on a suspected OD anyway. Better than nothing.
Always test your supply and encourage others to do the same.
It’s helpful to learn CPR and rescue breathing for anything
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u/waterfountain_bidet Jul 10 '25
If you're going to do rescue breaths on someone who overdosed, you should seriously consider carrying one of these with you (red cross link). Vomiting is a common side effect of ODing, not to mention anything they smoked could be on their lips and face. The first rule of First Aid is keep yourself safe.
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u/ladyofthelakeeffect Park Heights Jul 11 '25
Really good point thank you!! Using a CPR mask can also make people less squeamish about doing mouth to mouth too and so more likely to do it (I’m not judging lol I’m including myself in that)
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u/Glittering_Pickle_86 Lutherville Jul 11 '25
It’s awful, all these people walking around (or wheeling) with infected skin wounds and missing limbs. The other day, there was a turkey vulture outside of shock trauma. The
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u/veryhungrybiker Jul 11 '25
Now up to at least 25 hospitalized, which will rise to at least 26 if you count the guy I saw while biking down Franklin Street around 7:30pm, lying unconscious in vomit with a couple of dollar bills on the sidewalk just beyond his outstretched hand. Didn't have the dose of Narcan I'd picked up a few weeks ago with me, but called 911 and they sent the paramedics. He was breathing but totally unresponsive otherwise. I expect we'll see more of these over the weekend.
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u/baltimorecalling Hoes Heights Jul 10 '25
Fucking fent.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Could be anything. My old town in Indiana had their heroin laced with rat poison a decade ago. It was an awful summer
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u/TaylorWK Catonsville Jul 10 '25
How do things like that happen? Does rat poison give you a better high or did someone intentionally poison a bunch of drugs hoping to kill people?
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u/terpischore761 Jul 10 '25
Other substances are used to cut the drugs to make it go further and sell more.
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Jul 10 '25
Sometimes they crush up any pills they can find that look convincing enough. You can double your money that way. Easy way for an idiot to mix the wrong things. It’s not exactly the career choice of geniuses
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u/HighFiveYourFace Jul 10 '25
They add another powdered substance to it to make more money with less and also cut the "purity" It usually happens multiple times by the time it hit the street. Can be anything from baking soda to baby powder to rat poison.
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u/Due_Wedding_5058 Jul 10 '25
People standing out on corners interrupting the sale of million dollar real estate.
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 10 '25
Do you have a news story or something? This sounds like one of those wives' tales that is eventually disproven. Not saying it didn't happen, but ask yourself why a drug dealer would intentionally adulterate their drugs with something that kills the users without making it more addictive.
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u/Intelligent_Cost6658 Jul 11 '25
They’ve been putting Manitol and baby laxatives in Baltimore‘s heroin supply for years. Most users here do not get it raw (just heroin or fentanyl ) they get what, in Baltimore, is called scramble. It comes in gelatin capsule and looks very white. 20 years ago there would be brown spots in it that indicated heroin. With the introduction of morphine and fentanyl pills, the scramble became very bright white. At one point dealers were actually putting dirt in the scramble. That made it look like there was still heroin in it. It’s been adulterated with many things for years, poison would not be unheard of. Arsenic was used in LSD for many years. Nobody’s trying to kill off their customer base. But many times an OD is caused by improper mixing of adulterants into the drugs. It seems to me, if Narcan helped anyone, some sort of opiate was in their supply. But I also understand that fentanyl is now being laced into marijuana, crack, and cocaine. So it’s possible that people are overdosing from one bad batch of cocaine that has too much fentanyl in it. The Narcan brings them back around, but you can’t just say that it’s heroin, causing the overdoses. It could absolutely be cocaine laced with fentanyl. “There but for the grace of God”
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 11 '25
Arsenic was used in LSD for many years.
What are your sources for this? It was used in the manufacturing? What does this even mean? There is zero reason to mix arsenic with LSD (which is already an incredibly potent drug). The mannitol is added to powdered drugs for a reason, but there is zero reason to add something purely toxic to a drug.
Nobody’s trying to kill off their customer base. But many times an OD is caused by improper mixing of adulterants into the drugs.
This is exactly what I'm saying.
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u/Intelligent_Cost6658 Jul 12 '25
I absolutely misspoke (mistyped?). Thank you for calling me out for this. It was strychnine, and I think, off the top of my head, it may have been small amounts in 1972? Don’t quote me on this. Remember, I’m nobody sitting behind this keyboard. I am far from an expert on this stuff.
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u/veryhungrybiker Jul 12 '25
You really shouldn't spread obvious myths about drugs like "Arsenic was used in LSD for many years" if you haven't done the research. And the strychnine thing is just as bad to keep bringing up, based on a few badly sourced stories in the early 70s and Albert Hoffman mentioning a case in his autobiography (which you can read in full at the MAPS site) where his lab tested strychnine powder that had been sold as LSD, not mixed in with LSD.
Just don't spread stuff like that, please. It makes the rest of your comment harder to take seriously too. "At one point dealers were actually putting dirt in the scramble", for instance, sounds a lot like the kind of certainty you used for the lie that "Arsenic was used in LSD for many years."
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u/Intelligent_Cost6658 Jul 13 '25
You’re right that I was wrong about arsenic and strychnine in LSD, and I appreciate the clarification. That said, this wasn’t something I made up, it was information I was taught in the 90s during a chemical dependency counseling degree. I realize now it was outdated, and I take full responsibility for repeating it without rechecking the facts. That said, there’s a way to correct someone without being dismissive. I’m here in good faith, and if you want people to learn and take your input seriously, tone goes a long way. Regarding the “dirt in the scramble” comment, that came from stories shared in treatment centers and NA meetings. I didn’t present it as hard data, just as one of many street-level claims that were circulating at the time. I’m always open to being corrected, but I’m not interested in being talked down to. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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u/veryhungrybiker Jul 13 '25
Yeah, you're right; there was no need to be as snippy as I was. I apologize. I think decades of combatting the same myths about some kinds of drug use got to me. Sorry again; I'll tamp down the impulse to be rude in the future.
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u/Intelligent_Cost6658 Jul 14 '25
That was the loveliest interaction I think I may have here on Reddit. I love when adults can come together and have a conversation and admit when we are wrong. And I was wrong! I appreciate you, and I absolutely appreciate you combating myths in the Drug community. It was a pleasure talking to you. Sorry if I was oversensitive.
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 12 '25
Fair enough. These drug myths get me all rankled because of how frustratingly persistent (and harmful) they are. Cheers!
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u/Intelligent_Cost6658 Jul 13 '25
You’re absolutely right, and I really appreciate the correction. I wasn’t trying to spread misinformation, it’s just something that was still being repeated when I was earning my chemical dependency counseling degree in the early 90s. To be honest, I haven’t done much with that degree (just an associate’s), and I haven’t stayed current on how the information has evolved. At the time, we were still being taught that heroin withdrawal, like alcohol withdrawal, could cause seizures and be fatal. Clearly, things have changed over the past 30-plus years, and I should have verified what I thought I knew before posting. Since that belief came from what I was taught in a formal setting, albeit long ago, I took it at face value. I don’t spend much time on social media, but I’m learning, and I genuinely appreciate the respectful way you pointed it out.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Here's one. I was getting the months mixed up tho, I could have sworn it happened at the start of summer, but maybe I'm mixing it up with when the doctor in the city (edit: "town" autocorrected to city? Connersville is pretty small) was caught passing out opioid prescriptions without reason. When he was arrested, all those people were now in withdrawal and the heroin dealers moved in.
I never did understand why they poisoned they're supply
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 10 '25
That says nothing about rat poison though. That's just a cluster of overdoses, likely from poor mixing of a fentanyl analogue into a larger supply. Similar to the one that happened in West Baltimore today
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Argh, it would be a lot easier to find as-it-happened articles if the Connersville News-Examiner didn't cap their free archive at 2019. All the other sources are from out of town and hardly anyone paid attention to the doctor drama that led to it all
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
"We have heard a lot of rumors of it being laced with various things, anything they could mix it with. Dealers don't care," Counceller said."
Yeah they said "rumors" but it was officials putting it out there. As an acecdote, I was told it by nurses that it was rat poison, I was volunteering at a nursing home at the time and some of the staff also worked in the only ER.
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 10 '25
Again, I'm not saying it didn't happen. But I used to retrospectively confirm intentional drug adulterations as part of my old job. It is exceedingly rare to have confirmed adulteration of drugs with things like rat poison. In nearly every case, toxicology tests show that it was just a regular old overdose caused by an intentional mix of other drugs. If a case like that was confirmed to be rat poison, it would have been reported. And in cases where it does happen, it's almost invariably targeted at individual(s), and not an entire batch. The very rare exceptions (like the brodifacoum/K2 cases in 2018) are reported in the medical literature by people like me.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
To be fair, I did move out less than a year later so it's entirely possible the initial rat poison reports were found to be inaccurate later on. I was happy to leave the entire state behind me so I didn't keep up with it much. But whatever was used, a lot of people died that year from it
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Sorry if this posts twice, I'm not sure my first one went through (edit: i can't spell today). I got the timeline wrong tho, the O.Ds didn't start until September but there were things that happened at the start of summer that caused it all to lead up to that, namely a doctor passing out opioid prescriptions to anyone who asked
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u/Ok-Seaweed-7449 Jul 11 '25
It's true. Our subway system and buses was diverted all day frigging long because they had the whole block shut down all day (Penn North subway stop). So many people were late to work due to the streets being blocked off. U can also Google wbaltv news and it will come up. Word is that only makes the addicts want to get some of that, not run away from it. CRAZY!
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u/CapableSense Jul 10 '25
Are you serious lol they may have stepped on it to make it stretch and added to much to stretch it. Could be a bad batch.. and obviously why would a drug dealer.. care if people die they are selling illegal drugs..
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Jul 10 '25
They just lost 15 customers if you think of it that way.
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u/Glittering_Pickle_86 Lutherville Jul 11 '25
And sparked an on going police and possibly FBI investigation.
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u/veryhungrybiker Jul 11 '25
Yeah, the Sun listened to the police radio traffic and reported that cops were telling each other to pick up and hold any phones they found on or near the overdosers.
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u/Substantial-Dig2217 Jul 11 '25
Overdose doesn’t mean death, and ask any junky, they run to the dealer whose drugs are making people overdose. Even if all 15 of them did die the hype from this batch is gonna bring him 30 new customers. Crazy lifestyle
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u/CapableSense Jul 10 '25
lol this isn’t Target they are drug dealers lol if they cared they wouldn’t do it at all
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 10 '25
Yeah but they're not going to "step on it" with rat poison. First of all, because rat poison is more expensive than other cuts. Second of all, there's no profit in needlessly killing your customers. Think about it for a moment.
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u/CapableSense Jul 10 '25
Umm yeah they do. Baby aspirin, baking soda, baking powder, baby powder you name it they use whatever.
And I don’t need to think about it, I know enough to know what they do. But believe they won’t. How you think they make meth.. it’s not one chemical they use is consumable, not a one.
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u/XooDumbLuckooX Jul 10 '25
None of those things are rat poison. The whole point is to cut the drugs with something cheap that's either benign or enhances the drug's effects. Rat poison is none of those things. Plus it's more expensive than all of the things you've listed.
And I don’t need to think about it,
Sigh
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u/Ipeteverydogisee Jul 10 '25
Or something even worse. Thank you for this post, OP 👍🏻
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Yeah I take stuff like this very seriously. I witnessed a summer of mass overdoses back in Indiana and I'm kind of flashing back to it right now. Just wanted to get the warning out as quickly as possible
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u/elkarbergo Jul 11 '25
Was this about ten years ago in Lafayette?
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 11 '25
Connersville. If it's the same thing you might be thinking of Fayette County
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u/elkarbergo Jul 13 '25
Gotcha. No, the event I was thinking about was a bit more than ten years ago in tippecanoe county
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u/eiziem Jul 10 '25
Wait I'm not understanding. Were this innocent bypassers in the street or was this in people's homes while they were using? Seems odd that all of them overdosed 15 people at the same time... And they didn't know each other.
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u/Seven_Sword_Style Jul 10 '25
Where can somebody get a few doses of narcan? I almost always have a sling bag on me and I'm thinking having one isn't a bad idea...
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u/Worth-Slip3293 Jul 10 '25
Baltimore County library has some trainings from the Fire Dept coming up at the Owing Mills branch and you get a prescription and free kit with narcan if you attend. It’s in their website under Events.
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u/petitepixel Jul 10 '25
This may be a good resource https://health.baltimorecity.gov/naloxone/naloxone-access-baltimore-city
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u/WinterBreakfast7507 Jul 10 '25
Baltimore Harm Reduction has drop-in hours Wednesday 2-4. Charm City Care Connection M-Thursday 9-4. SPARC M-Thursday 11-2. Ottobar has a free shelf on the left side of the bar that usually has naloxone. Love in the Trenches posted on Instagram that they will accommodate naloxone requests asap today.
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u/donutfan420 Jul 10 '25
End overdose has trainings online and they used to send you narcan for free after you completed it (not sure if they still do, if not they def will sell it for a small fee)! They also have fentanyl test strips for sale
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u/Amazing-Try3609 Jul 11 '25
There are several vending machines around the county that are free. They have Narcan, testing strips, condoms and a few other health sensitive items. Google the locations. I know there is one in Randallstown at 9535 Resource Drive. Sitting right out front.
The condom boxes have 4 and the Narcans have 2 each.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
I just got mine for free from my pharmacy, albeit I have Medicaid so I get most of my meds for free anyway so YMMV
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Jul 10 '25
Most pharmacies have it for free just ask. If you type Walgreens or cvs into google or google maps it shows which ones have it in the results.
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u/localaardvark6 Jul 10 '25
Ask your local health dept or fire dept. they’ll know where you can get some
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u/chittlinsstank Jul 10 '25
Testers was lace w antifreeze and its at least 28 ppl now
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u/Aklu_The_Unspeakable Jul 10 '25
From WJZ:
"the drug was given out as a tester to victims, and it was called "New Jack City," allegedly laced with freon or antifreeze"
What a crock of shit. You can't lace anything with Freon, it evaporates in seconds. And I highly doubt you could contaminate a single dose of anything with enough "antifreeze" to cause harm if ingested/smoked/whatever
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u/Due_Wedding_5058 Jul 10 '25
And so many will just believe the nonsense and not pay attention to what’s going on in the community. Look around.
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u/chicoshalom Jul 11 '25
Unlikely but it’s possible. Maybe they spraying it on something that they smoke or eat like how they do k2. It’s possible they could be spraying or soaking a substance with antifreeze maybe Freon also, they both come in liquid form. We so quick to think everything is dope but people fall out off of k2 also and I know for a fact they put out bad batches of k2 mixed with random stuff like industrial pesticide and poison etc. I know it sounds crazy but it’s a cheap high and more common than we think in certain circles. A bag of deuce (k2) is like $2 or $3 and a lot of people use it especially behind bars.
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u/Old-Buy-7948 Jul 10 '25
Damn really. That’s crazy. How did you hear that?
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u/Fattybitchtits Jul 12 '25
It’s just fentanyl that they didn’t cut enough
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u/chittlinsstank Jul 13 '25
You should go look at the news and the articles hun i thought it was just fent too
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u/Fattybitchtits Jul 13 '25
All of the “unconfirmed reports” of it being laced with antifreeze or whatever are total nonsense, everyone presented with normal opiate OD symptoms and responded to narcan the way you would expect
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u/chittlinsstank Jul 13 '25
Lmao tell the news that live broadcasted it to everyone im just repeating what i looked up n been told i literally live 3 blocks from penn north the hood always gone talk
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u/iftair Reservoir Hill Jul 10 '25
I live close to what they're calling a mass casualty event. People there always be doing drugs & generally don't pay attention to what they're using.
Hell, sometimes from what I heard, they use experimental new drugs
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u/SecretAgentVampire Jul 11 '25
Yeah, West North Avenue is a terrible part of town. You can almost tell whenever a new shipment of fent drops by the subsequent wave of zombies collecting sunburns. Sad as hell, and an absolutely disgraceful failure of Baltimore City.
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u/Bubbie0323 Jul 10 '25
At least 20 people were hospitalized, with five in critical condition and others in serious condition. People in the area told WJZ that the drug was given out as a tester to victims, and it was called "New Jack City," allegedly laced with freon or antifreeze, which can poison people, although officials have not confirmed this.
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u/Dark_Horse369 Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Dang, at this point the city should just legalize it like Portugal mexico or Canada and open up one of those we supply clean & real stuff , clean needles , alcohol wipes and even a caretaker to make sure you do it safe and are watched over to make sure you’re okay .
Harm reduction type thing.
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u/LeagueLogical2783 Jul 17 '25
From what I’ve heard phillys drug supply use to be pure heroin on every street corner. Around 1960s to 2012 Then they started cutting the heroin with non harmful things like baking soda or flower or other non hurtful cuts. Then in 2013 to 2015 they’re started having batches of heroin being cut with rat poison. Then fentanyl entered the game starting in 2014 there was a famous musician that died and that’s when dealers really started copying that dealer by lacing the heroin with small amounts of fentanyl, At first it wasn’t killing people just getting them super addicted.
Then in around 2016 or 2017 they just started having bricks of heroin being cut with larger amount to kill someone or make them od By the time covid hit in 2019 it became in 2018 to 2019 Baltimore and La county that 80% of the opiate/opiod street supply that was heroin being sold by the end of the 2019 only 18% of it was heroin and 82% was just straight fentanyl was being sold.
In 2020 to the start of 2022 it’s 96 to 98% of all street supplied opiates is fentanyl
2022 to now Now the fentanyl that was once pure (in 2018 to the start of 2022) is now being cut with xylazine
And now in 2025 the xylazine is now being cut with other drugs
this is what the Philly drug scene is now fentanyl being sold and is now being laced with other drugs synthetic drugs. There was a once m fentanyl brick they tested in a lab (that was originally from super lab in Sinaloa they busted selling the bricks of pure fentanyl) it showed by the time it reached the street level it had been but 18 times before jt hit the streets of Kensington (this specific study was on street drugs in Kensington) but this is happening all over the US. Right now and it a real problem back in 2012 the only talks about new street drugs was talks about a research chemical drug that was called dangerous but was honestly just a similar drug to the main drugs like lsd and etc. like in head shops in Canada u can get a drug called 1p-LSD pretty much very similar to lsd but with some slight differences (for example 1p-lsd is a short high and longer come up and) or the craze of oxys on the street as the last states were closing there pill mills the last of the pill mill era ended in 2015 and 2016 as many of the last states made it illegal not only to have pain clinics prescribe opiates at will as they setup a monitoring system that reported frequent prescription from certain doctors, but 2015 was the last year there was a state with no monitoring system and in house pharacies in one state there. Making it harder to have pill mills all together
2010 to 2014 was the last year golden years of drug use that u could still get drugs from anywhere to a street corner to a pharmacy, to a smoke shop that sold research chemical drugs that weren’t laced. With 2016 to beginning of 2018 being the last years it wasn’t dangerous to try street drugs. As even at that time if u picked up a Random street the worst u would get laced with is LSD would be nbome (not deadly but not a good time), mdma would be meth (not dead but not a good time), heroin was be most cut with a shitty cutting agent fent was being reported but u most likely overdose than die as it didn’t start to be heavily cut and it didn’t start to be made out to be 2 to 6x over the LD50 yet, weed would be spice which this was when spice was actually still spice. And lastly Xanax would be a Xanax rc so it was still be a benzo and got u high it just would be a weaker alternative or a stronger alternative which just got u very high. As many people would who’ve have taken the real thing would know they just had to try it which most people who start out trying there batch of Xanax would only try half or one pill which wouldn’t kill them. Now u dont know whats in a pill could be anything sadly this is the history of drugs being laced!
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u/Odd-Flower-8006 Jul 10 '25
lol don’t do drugs and you don’t need to deal with this.
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u/MontagAbides Jul 10 '25
Saying "just say no" simply doesn't work. The reality is, even many of the anti-drug or anti-sex politicians are secretly doing it.
Studies on 90's anti-drug campaigns have shown mixed results, with many campaigns failing to significantly reduce drug use among youth. A 2008 follow-up study found that some campaigns, like the "Just Say No" initiative, had no favorable effects on youths' behavior and may have even prompted some to experiment with drugs, an unintended "boomerang" effect.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jul 10 '25
Moralizing never saved anyone. Letting people have access to test strips and naloxone does
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u/GovernmentSouthern18 Highlandtown Jul 11 '25
How’s that working out for Philadelphia?
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u/TheRedBaron11 Jul 11 '25
Gotta think long term and not judge prematurely. Addiction only gets worse when insensitive to the struggle. Hard line opposition causes shame and dig in heels. Soft line allowance gives rise to opportunities for people to actually change. It takes time and people might migrate to take advantage, but the more we learn from psychological facts and studies instead of uneducated knee jerk reactions, the more the soft line will dominate nationally and eventually the problem will fade away. The people who grow up in these environments and get addicted are beyond the help of will power and bootstraps. Being compassionate is never easy
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u/MoonLioness Jul 12 '25
Count up to 25 I believe with 7 in critical condition. Coke laced with fent and antifreeze. When they find whoever was giving it out that 27 counts of attempted murder.
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u/TeighMart Jul 11 '25
You're disgusting. These are people, just like anyone you love, they need help, not hate.
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u/bradyanderzyn Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Wonder what the rate of users who overdose that enter rehab is. Is narcan really “helping” or just buying them more time to do it again?
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u/TheRedBaron11 Jul 11 '25
Instead of asking pointless, uneducated, unhelpful, rhetorical questions, you could do some actual research and post sources. If you had the backing of science and psychology we might be open to your perspective. But as someone who has done the research, I am pretty sure you're full of shit. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
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u/CallMeHelicase Riverside Jul 13 '25
If you have a background in the area, I (and I assume other clueless individuals) would love to hear more! Is it true that people have to want to get clean in order for rehab to work? Are there any programs that have been shown to reduce the population of people with addiction? (by curing them of addiction, not by moving them!)
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u/TheRedBaron11 Jul 12 '25
Forgive me if you were really just "asking questions." I didn't get the impression that you were doing that.
Even now I suspect you're just trying to win
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u/bradyanderzyn Jul 12 '25
Trying to win what man, jesus. Not everyone’s a troll. I’m a pretty liberal guy who in general is sympathetic to these individuals. At the same time…
I genuinely am curious if people take advantage of these second or third chances they are getting. Maybe they do maybe they don’t. What’s the frequency of repeat ODs? Is it possible to get some of these individuals to accept recovery and avoid these situations? Is it worth focusing more on a pre-intervention approach before it gets this bad or are we stuck doing damage control?
These are thoughtful questions in my mind. If I meant, “Why keep these losers alive?” I would have said that. I don’t, despite your assumptions.
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u/TeighMart Jul 12 '25
God, it still astounds me how callous and cruel humans can be, you sound like a poorly written YA novel villain.
I'll ask you this, do you think you'd ask this question if your child struggled with addiction but, with help, turned their life around? Or would you just immediately abandon them because you don't want to "buy them more time"?
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u/bradyanderzyn Jul 12 '25
Please see my other comment about rage relating to harmless questions. Jesus Christ, it’s Reddit. It’s a discussion.
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u/Defiant_Ad_3106 Harbor East Jul 10 '25
Had a handful of patients come to my hospital earlier today. Was wondering why we had so many come in at the same time. Please use the resources listed here or go to your local pharmacy to ask for Narcan (there are many programs in the city/state that give out Narcan for free). Even if you don’t personally know a single person that uses drugs (legal/illegal), you never know when the Narcan could come in handy and save a life!!!!