The use and abuse of illegal and dangerous drugs is at a crisis moment in America. It is made doubly worse by our apathy toward and coddling of it.
To give a sense of the extent of this crisis, consider that over 110,000 Americans died from such drug use last year. The bulk of those deaths were of people under age 50.
Were young Americans dying from COVID-19 at these rates, our country’s hair would be on fire, just as it was on fire over COVID-19, which never approached these death rates. And there are new dangerous drugs coming into use as well. Few have heard of Captagon, and a year ago, almost nobody heard of xylazine, or “tranq,” which turns living humans into zombies.
The COVID-19 years are Public Health Exhibit Number 1. Drunken driving and cigarette smoking are Public Health Exhibits 2 and 3. Nobody escaped the saturation of messaging and more, much more, on these public health crises. Just imagine a campaign against drunken driving that said, “If you plan to drink and drive, drink only a little at first, and drive slowly, consider eating a meal first.”
As for naloxone, it is sadly a necessary tool, but it is the ambulance called after a car crash, a last-ditch effort after a trauma. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it will not. And it will not touch some drugs, including tranq.
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