From Frank Juliano, CT Post:
City firefighters are administering naloxone hydrochloride, commonly known as Narcan, an average of twice a day to bring overdose victims back from the brink of death.
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“We wish we didn’t have this problem, but we do, and it’s not just Bridgeport, it’s all over the country,” Ganim said. “People get pain medications from their doctors when they need them, but there is a connection between prescription drugs and (the use of) heroin. This can happen to anyone.”
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I swear it looks like Joe is considering who in his administration should get the Narcan. Many of them need to be brought back from the brink of death.
LOL Booty, we need more of your wit!
I look at this photo and it seems like Mayor Ganim is contemplating using it himself.
I am not sure of the full message here.
Perhaps it is the WAR ON DRUGS continues to fail in terms of billions of dollars providing negative incentives to drug use being resisted by tens of thousands of individual choices (bad decisions) to consume substances that provide no necessary requirements for enjoying quality of life. But they do continue to provide lots of dollars to dealers and providers in that chain. And control standards are not necessarily part of the street branding routine as to purity or quality. So overdoses sadly are a user risk.
What baseline, kept by whom provides the 400% notice that looks like news? What organization provided the 400 kits? Was it part of GBAPP’s mission or responsibility to supply this? Are they taxpayer-supported directly or indirectly? Keeping people safe and alive is an important mission, obviously. Where is the news here? If Firefighters show up with an engine as first responders and have been trained for this duty, why is the undermanned PD considering this additional responsibility including more training? Perhaps more community policing will build engagement such that actual drug availability on our streets will drop. Would that be pro-active also in terms of community safety and maintaining healthy lives? Things are different in some suburbs obviously where first responders may be police rather than volunteer fire or emergency service personnel.
Police Questions: When the Mayor’s SUV becomes lost or missing from a City parking lot that presumably has some video coverage; when that fact is not observed or made public until after announcement from a police force in Kentucky; can the vehicle in question be questioned as to how, when and why such a trip came to be? Does it have tracking technology? Perhaps the vehicle feels put out it was “carnapped” with no “amber alert” or similar and no one cared what happened to it. Does the Mayor continue to employ a “driver” or “protector” who is on the Police Department payroll? How much overtime is generated to that individual? And who better than a trained and sworn member of the Police Department to keep track of the Mayoral vehicle? What has the Mayor been doing in the meantime for modes of transportation from home in the AM to home in the PM? By the way, has Mayor Joe or spokesperson Av shared where “home” is these days? Where does the Mayor rest his weary brow each night? Open, accountable, transparent and honest? Time will tell.
Who is the dumbass who left the keys in the vehicle? Whomever that is should be fired. If it’s the mayor, this is just another mark against him. Joe, you appear to be suffering from terminal dumbass. BTW, where in hell do you live? We know it’s not Cartright street and I am sure it’s not Ellsworth St. If you have a driver isn’t he violating the law by transporting you out of town every night?
The city vehicle went missing? Well, it wasn’t reported stolen. If it had been I’d suspect City Hall of insurance fraud to balance the budget. This is Bridgeport, after all.
Minister Kingwood, you are one of those angels who just goes about under the radar but who is there serving our community with the Greater Bridgeport Area Prevention Program (GBAPP). There are just so many other things you do, thank you.