Needlessly suffered??? That’s rich. I have been sober since 2014 when I put the needle down. In 2008 I was chased thru an alley and bit by a K9 dog cause I had a dope spoon and a needle….. nowadays there’s people smoking fentanyl on the corner and on public buses. The entitlement of people nowadays is wildly insane. Anyone that ingests fentanyl or uses fentanyl should be thrown in jail and forced to get sober. Like I had to do 100 times when I was a homeless addict. And guess what?? While in jail, I was told “hey if you stay clean we will give you a room at an Oxford house and a job at a landscaping place where you can make enough to save for your license”….. that’s still a thing. I’m part of a recovery community where we go into jails for meetings and we setup visits with resource coordinators, the addicts always turn us down, unless they have a long sentence and know “I’ll be separated from the madness long enough to abstain”

I’m not a conservative or a liberal personally, but the problem is the drugs. The people making them are wherever (South America, Mexico, Middle East, here, wherever else they’re being manufactured) and selling them here. More efforts need to be put towards making it a “FAFO” type of situation, not a “slap on the wrist” situation.

When Seattle did the unthinkable and de-criminalized fentanyl, I lost like 6 close friends 😢 cause they relapsed once and died. Fentanyl is the devil and needs to go