You know what I didn't think about with Katrina refugees, etc.? The addicts.

[abcdefz]

Yup.

Suppose you had a particular addiction and almost overnight had to figure out how to maintain it while being shoved into shelters or even private homes in an area you don't know?

I'm not kidding. I'm not advocating addiction or anything, but I have great empathy. And maintaining your drug of choice under those kinds of conditions has got to be awful.

[JBernas]

God's way of saying 'get sober'. Probably a blessing

[abcdefz]

...yeah, but do you want to be on the cot next to the dude withdrawing from [insert drug here] involuntarily? Yeepers.

[mickill]

Mayor Nagin talked about how the addicts were posing a big problem for law enforcement in that interview where he "lost his temper".

[Lemmy's Liver]

think of all the free smack you could salvage from the ruins

think happy thoughts like that

[DandyFop]

I don't feel bad for anyone about that kind of shit. The addicts are some of the people who went nutso in the streets hurting people.

[BangkokB]

My hand to God
I remember people trying to sneak in that demon alcohol and weapons and CNN vilifying these people. Choose your poison

How bout the heroin addicts? They need the attention they deserve

[enree erzweglle]

I asked a Red Cross instructor this question today. He said that people with addictions are housed separately, not in RC shelters. Basically, if you're at a Red Cross shelter, you have to be self-sufficient or have a designated person care for you.

Sometimes, he said, people with addictions try to ride them out or hide them from the staff (they don't disclose them upon entering the shelters). So, they're in the shelters, but when the problem becomes evident to shelter managers, the person is deferred to another facility.

[yeahwho]

pharmaceutical painkillers and cocaine....dental offices and drug stores, I bet we never hear the full statistics of the real drug war.

[abcdefz]

I asked a Red Cross instructor this question today. He said that people with addictions are housed separately, not in RC shelters. Basically, if you're at a Red Cross shelter, you have to be self-sufficient or have a designated person care for you.

Sometimes, he said, people with addictions try to ride them out or hide them from the staff (they don't disclose them upon entering the shelters). So, they're in the shelters, but when the problem becomes evident to shelter managers, the person is deferred to another facility.




...this was the kind of reality I was thinking of. The way that addiction plays out among people.

[YoungRemy]

imagine all the pharmacies that were looted...


and they were trying to get into the hospitals, that was the comment Nagin said...

"try to take an edge off their jones"

[Laver1969]

imagine all the pharmacies that were looted...


and they were trying to get into the hospitals, that was the comment Nagin said...

"try to take an edge off their jones"

^lots of pharmacies were looted. Along with the gun departments of some Wal-Marts.

[FearandLoathing]

God's way of saying 'get sober'. Probably a blessing

Yep, and the people with depression who can't get their medication should just get happy, right?

And the people with diabetes who can't get their medication should just get better.