Police release photos of couple ODing with child in backseat

The pictures are a touch disturbing, but you can find them at the link:

Ohio police share photos of adults overdosed with child in car

I say, good for the cops. Get more images like this out there. Especially after seeing how effective the "Truth" campaign was against cigarette smoking.

 

Yep. Good on them. Can't fight a drug epidemic with a pretty PR campaign.*



*Of course, the outcry would have been a lot worse if this was a black couple.

 

Why on earth would they try to revive these dickslap losers?

 

Yeah. Good on the cops.

Not sure it will help stop anyone already hooked from using but it can't hurt.

The heroin epidemic is awful right now. Lot of people are folks who get addicted through prescribed pain pills.

Now they are putting all these powerful drugs in the "heroin" and ODs are off the charts.

 

Yeah. And if the cops catch some businessman driving while drunk, they should put a bullet in his head, too.

 

I am just learning about the heroin epidemic -- largely through our thread on it. Maybe naivete on my part, maybe a function of being a 40s-ish married guy who doesn't go out all that much, but until the last little while, I haven't understood the toll it's taking. So displays like these are very powerful. Good move by the police.

 

I am merely proposing that paramedics don't play god.

 

Probably the law. In NJ, cops have to carry and use Narcan.

Man Saved With Naloxone After Heroin Overdose in Englishtown

 

You don't seem as adept at blue font use as rounding up wayward educators.

 

That's one thing about this epidemic. It's catching 40ish married guys and gals who maybe are prescribed strong pain meds for some injury or procedure.

They get hooked, can't get the stuff anymore and it's straight downhill to HIV and elephant-tranquilizer-tainted heroin.

 

Did they identify the doctor who prescribed these two the pain meds that got them hooked on heroin?

 

Definitely has been a revelation. And something to think about if I'm ever unfortunate enough to need the stiff prescription drugs in the first place.

Heroin was always so far away from me. Even crack seemed closer once upon a time. Now I read about it tearing up the town where I grew up.