It is state sponsored euthanasia……there is no safe way to use fentanyl. Oregon should prohibit the use of these drugs in public and absolutely not provide the implements of destruction to users. Such wrong-headed policy, masked in compassion……”harm reduction” is an Orwellian phrase.
Thank you, Thomas! This is powerful information that policymakers can use to stop the distribution of needles. Let’s hope the County begins the process by passing a first step in limiting their distribution around schools (thank you to neighborhood activist, Michelle Mila, and others for working to get this law passed — First reading before the Multnomah County Commissioners is May 21). Next: City Hall!
Needle distribution, harm reduction is a sham. Advocates for harm reduction are wearing blinders and support out dated research for what's happening on our neighborhood sidewalks. Advocates of needle distribution are not reasonable, common sense people. Hence the fight for needle distribution in front of schools. Because of advocates attitude on harm reduction, the drug addicted are enabled and coddled and our city is going to implode. Harm reduction is a sham and once again the ordinary citizens of Portland are scammed.
Meghan Moyer and Shannon Singleton would be a first good bet. They are the least likely to be in favor of curbing the "rights" of the drug addicts in favor of the taxpaying, common citizenry.
And once again an ordinary citizen of Portland is traumatically injured by a car jacking drug crazed homeless druggie on Monday at the airport.
"Pedraza told police he had been up for five days at the time of the carjacking and was trying to get straight."
Harm reduction at its finest.
Also on Monday, a 14 year old boy was found dead on the east esplanade from a suspected overdose of fentanyl.
Detective Jordan Zaitz with PPB's Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit said they are ultimately looking to charge whoever supplied Owings the narcotics.
What if the "harm reduction" crew supplied the foil, pipe, straw, needle etc...so the teen could engage in drug activity...will they be held accountable?? Again, harm reduction at its finest.
Thanks, Dr. Dodson, for sharing the data! If I were an alcoholic, would I be given an empty bottle so I could cross the street and purchase moonshine that would destroy my liver?
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." Theodore Roosevelt.
“When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts.” George Carlin
In its current state "harm reduction" is in danger of becoming progressive fascism.
Dr. Dodson writes well and thinks straight. But he misses the essential problem: this is not a matter of public policy (or even aesthetics) but one of religion.
The bright-eyed young folks handing out the goodies are seized with a fervor that replaces the vacuum left by secularism with faith. Like other religions, faith depends on accepting ideas that might look borderline insane and are beyond any rational test. The harder to justify with logic, the more tightly the adherents cling to dogma.
This is the root problem of most Portland issues; they cannot be approached rationally but must be argued on "feelings" (each unique to the feeler) and "lived experience" and all of the various substitutes for reason and evidence.
It is state sponsored euthanasia……there is no safe way to use fentanyl. Oregon should prohibit the use of these drugs in public and absolutely not provide the implements of destruction to users. Such wrong-headed policy, masked in compassion……”harm reduction” is an Orwellian phrase.
But it's "Oregon Values™" according to our Governor and everyone else who has bought the kool-aid.
Also, in the area of public health issues.
Oregon ranks between 9th and 10th in the Country for Syphilis !
Thank you, Thomas! This is powerful information that policymakers can use to stop the distribution of needles. Let’s hope the County begins the process by passing a first step in limiting their distribution around schools (thank you to neighborhood activist, Michelle Mila, and others for working to get this law passed — First reading before the Multnomah County Commissioners is May 21). Next: City Hall!
Needle distribution, harm reduction is a sham. Advocates for harm reduction are wearing blinders and support out dated research for what's happening on our neighborhood sidewalks. Advocates of needle distribution are not reasonable, common sense people. Hence the fight for needle distribution in front of schools. Because of advocates attitude on harm reduction, the drug addicted are enabled and coddled and our city is going to implode. Harm reduction is a sham and once again the ordinary citizens of Portland are scammed.
What can we do? Who should we contact?
Meghan Moyer and Shannon Singleton would be a first good bet. They are the least likely to be in favor of curbing the "rights" of the drug addicts in favor of the taxpaying, common citizenry.
And once again an ordinary citizen of Portland is traumatically injured by a car jacking drug crazed homeless druggie on Monday at the airport.
"Pedraza told police he had been up for five days at the time of the carjacking and was trying to get straight."
Harm reduction at its finest.
Also on Monday, a 14 year old boy was found dead on the east esplanade from a suspected overdose of fentanyl.
Detective Jordan Zaitz with PPB's Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit said they are ultimately looking to charge whoever supplied Owings the narcotics.
What if the "harm reduction" crew supplied the foil, pipe, straw, needle etc...so the teen could engage in drug activity...will they be held accountable?? Again, harm reduction at its finest.
Thanks, Dr. Dodson, for sharing the data! If I were an alcoholic, would I be given an empty bottle so I could cross the street and purchase moonshine that would destroy my liver?
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." Theodore Roosevelt.
“When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts.” George Carlin
In its current state "harm reduction" is in danger of becoming progressive fascism.
Finally. A voice of common sense. Thanks, doc. Spot on.
Also:
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/11/01/the-formulation-of-meth-has-changed-it-may-be-contributing-to-this-countrys-mental-health-crisis/
Dr. Dodson writes well and thinks straight. But he misses the essential problem: this is not a matter of public policy (or even aesthetics) but one of religion.
The bright-eyed young folks handing out the goodies are seized with a fervor that replaces the vacuum left by secularism with faith. Like other religions, faith depends on accepting ideas that might look borderline insane and are beyond any rational test. The harder to justify with logic, the more tightly the adherents cling to dogma.
This is the root problem of most Portland issues; they cannot be approached rationally but must be argued on "feelings" (each unique to the feeler) and "lived experience" and all of the various substitutes for reason and evidence.
Let us, therefore, pray. All will be well.