Comments on: ‘We Are Number One’ – EMS Chief Says Escambia Leads Florida In Opioid Overdose Deaths

By: Ginger

Ginger — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:28:10 +0000

I think anyone dealing it should be charged with Domestic Terrorism and subject to the death penalty…period.

By: Lindsay Vowell

Lindsay Vowell — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:38:08 +0000

I think rehab should be mandatory for anyone who has overdosed. Yes I agree that the addict has to be willing to change and get clean. But being a recovering addict myself, I have never heard an addict say they didn’t want to be clean. I’ve never heard anyone ever say, “when I grow up, I think I want to become a drug addict.” The truth is they want to make different choices. Sometimes forcing them to do what’s best for them is the way to go.

By: tc

tc — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:37:57 +0000

There are MANY things that contribute to this problem, Soft on crime policies – drug dealers are turned loose over & over with very little punishment. open borders absolutely make it easier for people to get drugs.. Most are too sorry to work a normal job so the drugs are an easy way to make a living.. Thugs are now being made into role models for children & their rebellious culture is being promoted in music, tv, video games etc . people aren’t being held accountable for their actions , its just too easy to make excuses for people anymore. most have no morals & its only getting worse.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:41:55 +0000

@ Debbie

mixing fentanyl with other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA is a cheaper way to make the drug more potent.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:26:13 +0000

I’m so sick of reading comments on here always making everything wrong in the country political. The problem is not the President, the Border, the Drug dealers – It’s the people that actually use the drugs. I’m sure if it was my loved one dying of an overdose I would want to blame someone too. The fact is, I’m 57 and my first encounter with someone doing drugs was 50 years ago, at Brent ballpark a young guy walked through the girls park sniffing glue from a rag in his hands. Well, they said glue, could have been anything. I continue to be shocked at what people will do to get high. Creating a drug to bring them back from an overdose was kind of like saying ‘It’s ok, go ahead and try it, if you die they’ll fix you right up’. I wonder what it will take to get some people to value their life more than a “high”?

By: RaD

RaD — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:22:24 +0000

What is the closest county in Florida to the porous Southwest drug riddled border with a major highway running through it? Escambia. What is being done about closing the border. Nothing. And nothing will be done about it for at least 2.5 more years.

Can anything truly be done for these people once they become addicted? How successful are drug addiction treatment programs?

There is an infinite number of drug dealers. You cannot legislate or regulate them out of existence. The supply side will exist as long as there is a demand side so the question is, can demand be minimized and if so, how.

Authors of a study assert 47% of the US adult population suffers from an addictive disorder. That includes smokers, drug users of all flavors, alcoholics, porn surfers, video gamers, etc. There really isn’t much difference in the behavior, just what the focus of the addiction is.

By: NavyDave

NavyDave — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:12:50 +0000

I first fell in love with Pensacola in 1989 when I arrived at (then) NSGA Corry Station for school. Over the years I passed through half a dozen times, sometimes for schools and sometimes as a duty station. Early on, I dreamed of maybe one day settling down here and finally bought a house in 2007. Retiring in 2013, I’m still here but every day I see evidence that this place may no longer be where I want to spend my life. There is not an intersection I drive through that isn’t staked out by panhandlers. Many of them are clearly high, drunk, mentally ill or a combination. Despite what spin some local politicians want to put on it, crime (especially violent crime) has exploded, there is uncollected trash everywhere, the local government seems unable or unwilling to maintain their properties or infrastructure, and no one is doing much of anything about it. In another article it’s mentioned that they want to raise my property taxes AGAIN? In what upside down universe are we expected to pay more for less?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:26:40 +0000

We need more laws so those truly needy of pain meds has to suffer because fentanyl is pouring across the southern border ; little different situations ; more restrictions on my legal doctors and pharmacies are needed ; more dumb laws needed ?

By: Jeff Drakeson

Jeff Drakeson — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:13:04 +0000

Maybe that 40 billion to Ukraine would help build large regional treatment centers throughout the US for anyone who has overdosed on opiates. Instead of circus impeachment hearings, hearings for this hearings for that, they spend the money and efforts into fixing the drugs coming through the border. Your dear leader doesn’t care…

By: derek

derek — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:28:54 +0000

The problem is compounded by the fact that people in constant chronic pain can not get any help. The legislature clamped down so hard on pain meds that physicians simply refuse to prescribe medicines to help. Now these people go out looking in other areas for relief. They wind up locating what appears to be prescription meds only to find out they are counterfeit and made up entirely of deadly fentanyl.