Police release photos of couple ODing with child in backseat

[MisterCreosote]

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.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

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.

 

[poindexter]

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

 

[Ace]

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.

 

[Ace]

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

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

 

[LongTimeListener]

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.

 

[poindexter]

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

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

 

[cjericho]

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

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

Man Saved With Naloxone After Heroin Overdose in Englishtown

 

[Ace]

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

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

 

[Ace]

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.

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.

 

[cjericho]

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

 

[LongTimeListener]

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.

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.

 

[Ace]

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

Yeah. It's in the police report.

Granted. These people are assholes and addicts. But addiction makes assholes of everyone it hooks.

Doctors know that a about a fourth of the people they prescribe strong pain pills to are at risk of becoming addicted.

 

[Iron_chet]

My father in law had back surgery a couple months ago. Super straight edge guy, never had a beer and started drinking the occasional glass of wine or cooler maybe 15 years ago.

He has been prescribed Morphine and Oxycodone. Everyone is super paranoid about potential opioid addiction including him.

We were visiting and I was finally the tipping point in him agree to try prescribed marijuana for the pain.

Hopefully it takes the edge off.

 

[Vombatus]

My father in law had back surgery a couple months ago. Super straight edge guy, never had a beer and started drinking the occasional glass of wine or cooler maybe 15 years ago.

He has been prescribed Morphine and Oxycodone. Everyone is super paranoid about potential opioid addiction including him.

We were visiting and I was finally the tipping point in him agree to try prescribed marijuana for the pain.

Hopefully it takes the edge off.

You just want some of his MJ, man!

 

[Iron_chet]

Ha. He's down in Florida where coincidentally there is a ballot measure for less restrictive marijuana laws, heard the radio ads non stop.

Here in Canuckistan I could probably have a bag within an hour even though I am not very connected anymore!

 

[User 11148]

Good Lord, those pictures are awful.

 

[Vombatus]

Good Lord, those pictures are awful.

Something I have always wondered about though - would photos like these and of other situations (I am thinking homicides and mass shootings) act as a deterrent?

I know you don't want to further harm and victimize survivors and families, but what if crime scenes were publicized in gory detail? What if we could see the bodies of little kids at Newtown all piled up?

Might give even more momentum for change to gun laws.

But, it might also drag out more lone nut behavior of folks trying to up their body count over previous records, and getting their "results" published.

I'm sure the press has done things a certain way for good reasons ever since photography was invented, but what if published photos really told more of the truth of the horror?

We are sort of getting some of that online now through videos captured by witnesses.

Thoughts?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

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

Man Saved With Naloxone After Heroin Overdose in Englishtown

A few years ago in Maine, the governor vetoed a bill that would require firefighters, paramedics and EMTs to carry Narcan.
He felt it would encourage people to use heroin more if they knew there was a safety net.
I doubt addicts are that rational.
Also, what he's saying is sort of like saying cars shouldn't have seat belts or air bags because it would encourage drivers to drive into brick walls (or deer, sorry I took that joke away from everyone else).
Not the best comparison, admittedly, but what he said doesn't make sense.

 

[User 11148]

Something I have always wondered about though - would photos like these and of other situations (I am thinking homicides and mass shootings) act as a deterrent?

I know you don't want to further harm and victimize survivors and families, but what if crime scenes were publicized in gory detail? What if we could see the bodies of little kids at Newtown all piled up?

Might give even more momentum for change to gun laws.

But, it might also drag out more lone nut behavior of folks trying to up their body count over previous records, and getting their "results" published.

I'm sure the press has done things a certain way for good reasons ever since photography was invented, but what if published photos really told more of the truth of the horror?

We are sort of getting some of that online now through videos captured by witnesses.

Thoughts?

I don't have a strong feel either way about whether said photos should be made public. But these photos ... Wow, they're rough.