Thursday, November 19, 2020

Cranking up the hospital bills

 Being a slum lord I have run into a continuing stream of long time meth users, They get themselves in trouble and as I often know them, I feel like it was something I did. I keep my distance, and for good reason. Another popped up, and again, another stroke. About my  fifth, tenth?  I dunno, lost count.  Each one costs over a million dollars to local taxpayers, ultimately. Who is losing? The kids, fewer of them, too many in county hands because parents got caught. Neighborhoods wiped out, on a WW1 slow motion.

I have never seen anything like that from cocaine, but I have seen a smaller share of the fentanyl deaths. I would almost prescribe cocaine to these folks, if it worked at all. They become a huge, ongoing burden.

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