Druggy Daaaaze Research Paper

Druggy Daaaaze Drugged, dazed, and distant are adjectives to describe the victims of our culture’s newest epidemic. Recently, I was sitting inside a McDonald’s restaurant, enjoying a friend’s company when three obvious drug users walked in. This was nothing outside of the norm. Mid-conversation, I felt someone brush against my back. I turned around to see a tanned, Caucasian man, approximately mid-twenties with luscious, curly dark hair. I watched the man fall over in the same manner as a tree timbering from a lumberjack. The man hit his head, and immediately started seizing. His friend, filling sodas at the drink fountain, thought he was joking. “C’mon man. Get up. Quit playin’ wit’ me…” Walmart employees were sitting in a booth across the dining area. One springs up and rushes over. “Dude, I don’t think he’s faking you. I think he’s out, man.”

The workers inside of Mcdonald’s rushes out with a first aid kit. Inside, there is a miracle drug, Narcan. They inject him with the Narcan, and within a few minutes, the seizing stopped, he became conscious, and the heroin he had used earlier reversed.

These traumas happen all across America every day, but they can be prevented (Vestal). Safe Injection Facilities (SIF’s) are places where drug users can go for a safe and hygienic environment (Kerr

Why should we enable them or give them better ways to keep doing their bad habits? Safe Injection Facilities reduce the amount of public nuisance (Kerr). If the drug abusers are in the safe houses, not only are they in a better environment, but they are also out of the public eye (Kerr). Parents would not have to worry about their children seeing someone ingesting drugs or shooting up (Macqueen). Safe houses keep substances like fentanyl and carfentanil off the streets and away from the public. It helps the addicts feel welcome, and for some, may give them hope that there is help out there