Yeah, started going that way a bit over a decade ago. Just accelerating at this point.
Yeah, started going that way a bit over a decade ago. Just accelerating at this point.
Public overdose's (often fentanyl related) are so common in the Denver metro that it is impossible to ignore. If you walk around any of the large parks and downtown areas near the capital you may not even know it but you have probably walked past at least 1 person that is either in the process of an overdose, dead or going to be one or the other later that day.
Archive: https://archive.today/XXMHV
From the post: "Z Williams was jogging on the edge of Cheesman Park when they noticed a man lying among the trees along East 8th Street. It was June 6, one of the first nice days of a rainy summer, and Williams figured the man was resting in the sunshine. But from a closer vantage, Williams could see that something was wrong. The man’s skin was gray and pale. He wasn’t moving. Syringes lay in the grass next to him. Williams knew how to respond, unlike many of the grocery store workers, baristas, bartenders and other Denverites who find themselves unwittingly on the front line of the state’s overdose crisis. Even while out for a jog, Williams was carrying naloxone — enough to give the man two doses of the overdose antidote."
Public overdose's (often fentanyl related) are so common in the Denver metro that it is impossible to ignore.
If you walk around any of the large parks and downtown areas near the capital you may not even know it but you have probably walked past at least 1 person that is either in the process of an overdose, dead or going to be one or the other later that day.
Archive: https://archive.today/XXMHV
From the post:
"Z Williams was jogging on the edge of Cheesman Park when they noticed a man lying among the trees along East 8th Street. It was June 6, one of the first nice days of a rainy summer, and Williams figured the man was resting in the sunshine.
But from a closer vantage, Williams could see that something was wrong. The man’s skin was gray and pale. He wasn’t moving. Syringes lay in the grass next to him.
Williams knew how to respond, unlike many of the grocery store workers, baristas, bartenders and other Denverites who find themselves unwittingly on the front line of the state’s overdose crisis. Even while out for a jog, Williams was carrying naloxone — enough to give the man two doses of the overdose antidote."
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