Ms. Whitefield, 28, had developed endocarditis, an infection of the heart valves caused by bacteria that entered her blood when she injected methamphetamine one morning in 2016. Doctors saved her life with open-heart surgery, but before operating, they gave her a jolting warning: If she continued shooting up and got reinfected, they would not operate againWith meth resurgent and the opioid crisis showing no sign of abating, a growing number of people are getting endocarditis from injecting the drugs — sometimes repeatedly if they continue shooting up. Many are uninsured, and the care they need is expensive, intensive and often lasts months. All of this has doctors grappling with an ethically fraught question: Is a heart ever not worth fixing?Not too many will be thrilled with the billions in Obamacare costs for these meth heads.
I pointed out many times, in Fresno wer have entire neighborhoods stuck on the stuff and they cannot even fill out a form. They mostly wander around and sleep in bushes. Dealing with them is a horrible waste of money in an era where the unions want all the money.
I found the best cure for meth addiction is to reject the meth head entirely. As everyone takes that attitude, the meth head has no money, can't buy the drug. Recovery time is over a year, it is a severe lesion in the brain.
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