Funny, the people most likely to make this argument were also the people most likely to whine about Obama’s death panels.
How is your decision that some people only get so many chances different?

YES I absolutely at TWELVE MOTHERFUCKING YEARS OLD made the conscious decision to take the medication that a medical professional had prescribed to me and assured to my parents was absolutely safe and necessary after having two teeth pulled to make room for braces. Yes. I’m a fucking shitty human.

Yeah, because if a woman gets heated about a disagreement she throws a “hissyfit” unlike a man who is simply letting his opinion be known.

FB is an unsettling way to find that people you thought were ok are kind of jerks, actually. I saw a lot of people on my feed talking about how Prince was garbage and no one should revere him after he died because he was an addict. I get that these are often people who have been up close to addiction and have been…

My neighbor growing up (he’s my age) has OD’ed on heroin twice in the last year or so. Both times he’s been given Narcan, and has survived so far. He’s a shitty person for many reasons, but it always bugs me when my parents start bitching about how the EMTs didn’t let him die. I’m always tempted to ask them how they…

I saw a post where someone had the photo, and one of the comments was something like “this is why I’m opposed to Narcan!” The person thought that just letting the people ODing die was somehow better for us all.

Um, as many as possible????! How is that even a fucking question?

This makes me sad. This is compassion fatigue. First responders need mental health services, too. Self care needs to be a priority for our first responders.

I assumed their argument is “just let those losers die”. It’s not much of an argument.

I know a social worker who thinks people on welfare are lazy. It baffles me how people working in healthcare and/or social services can still completely lack empathy for people who very likely will be using the services they provide. I mean, I know constantly seeing trauma can make people feel burnt out and numb to…

THIS. Motherfuckers say they want to help and raise awareness but have NO follow-through for addicts who might be reading the post, fucking sanctimonious assholes.

It’s this weird warped sense of ‘accountability’, where someone who needs help shouldn’t get it because they don’t deserve it because at some point they fucked up (especially if they fucked up by being poor)

Totally tangential but manufacturers of Narcan injectors have raised prices a lot in recent years too.

I think first responders get exhausted and frustrated with addicts, and that’s understandable, but it becomes toxic and dangerous when medical professionals slip into that mode where they start to think about who deserves the care they give and who does not. My sister has become markedly more callous and cynical since…

It would be disturbing from any regular human being to see that sort of callous attitude, but from medical people it’s especially alarming. Like, why are you equating one situation with the other at all? Don’t they all deserve our sympathy? Is this the life they would have chosen for themselves? I feel as though this…

“Oh no, someone somewhere is getting something I don’t need!”

Missing from the FB post: links to resources people can call to report/help addicts, decency, empathy.

So public shaming is ok with you. What’s next? Shall we also bring back public stonings?

It’s worse than that. I think the cops are trying to say “Look at what we deal with every day, aren’t we heroes? Don’t you feel bad for us?” They are using a child’s circumstance to elevate themselves, that is highly cynical.

One of the weirdest and most disturbing things that came out of this photo was that two differenct fb acquaintances retweeted similar memes pointing to the outrage that these people receive their Narcan for free while the Epipen costs $600. The weird and disturbing aspect is that both of them work in the medical…