re: Overdose deaths exceed murders in NOLA for the first time in history

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These are people affecting their own lives, not inflicting violence on others.

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Yeah not quite. Their addictions can cause them to seek desperate, and sometimes violent, measures to score another fix.

Trying to rob home health nurses cause they think they may have narcotics in their car. Robbing regular people for money for drugs. Getting violent and assaulting ER staff when they don't get the pain meds they want, etc, etc.

Also....another category affected.....teenagers. More and more coming in with narcotic overdoses cause they got ahold of someone else's pain pills (family, friend, etc).


It's so much a problem now that the American Heart Association has added training to their CPR classes on what to do if you think someone has overdosed.