Congratulations New York City! You’ve somehow managed to out California yourself! Drug overdoses are so bad in the shithole that officials there are begging residents to carry Narcan with them. You idiots voted for this so..
Word that New York City set a drug-overdose death-toll record last year was underscored this week by Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan’s proposal that everybody now pack an OD rescue kit.
“You should be carrying Narcan right now,” he says. “Narcan needs to be everywhere.”
That’s so you’ll be prepared in case you’re strolling through Tompkins Square Park one sunny afternoon, and notice someone flaked out on a bench looking seriously overdosed.
You’ll reach for your Narcan holster and come to the rescue (even though, given Tompkins’ clientele, you’ll doubtless need a much bigger holster.)
Hey — it takes a village, right?
Vasan also is, please excuse the expression, the brains behind Gotham’s city-sponsored “safe-injection” drug shoot-up sites and its “public health” vending machines — which pump out free syringes, clean needles and crack pipes to all comers.
And they say assisted suicide is illegal in New York.
Of course, not every bum on a bench is an opioid junkie — some prefer, say, Budweiser.
And a lot of them probably would resent being stabbed with a Narcan needle by a total stranger.