{"id":933690,"date":"2021-10-28T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933690"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:13:47","slug":"ann-coulter-give-the-dog-narcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ann-coulter-give-the-dog-narcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter: Give the Dog Narcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fann-coulter-give-the-dog-narcan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933690&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Terrific investigative reporter Sam Quinones, author of the 2015 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620402521\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>Dreamland: The True Tale of America\u2019s Opiate Epidemic<\/em><\/a>, is about to release a new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1635574358\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth<\/em><\/a>, out next week. It\u2019s jam-packed with amazing facts and, like all of Quinones\u2019 work, reads like a thriller.<\/p>\n<p>You may think you know this story. Trust me, you don\u2019t. I normally don\u2019t write book reviews, but Quinones\u2019 book is well worth your time. However, I reserve the right to slap him around a bit on his idea of \u201chope.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Here are some quotes from the book to give you a sense of why you won\u2019t be able to put it down:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Z]ach, a star high school running back, died \u2026 from a fentanyl-laced bogus Percocet sold to him by a dealer he found on Snapchat. The dealer delivered the pill at 3 a.m. The family\u2019s Ring camera captured Zach sneaking from the house. \u2026 His father found him dead on the front lawn at dawn.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would addicts seek out fentanyl, knowing it would likely kill them? The answer: That\u2019s the nature of addiction; it reprograms our brains so that their mission is not to ensure our survival but to pursue the drug. In the world of opiate-addicted brains, an overdose is not a warning; it\u2019s an advertisement.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with two recovering meth addicts who said they had to relearn how to speak. \u2018It took me a year and a half to recover from the brain damage it had done to me,\u2019 one of them said. \u2018I couldn\u2019t hardly form sentences. I couldn\u2019t laugh, smile. I couldn\u2019t think.\u2019\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Columbus, Ohio, [a drug counselor] remembers a meth addict who was hospitalized with frostbitten, gangrenous hands, yet who left the hospital in midwinter to find more dope.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Quinones is satisfyingly venomous toward the Sackler family (the pushers of OxyContin). But I wish he\u2019d expend a little of that bile on the Mexican drug pushers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18505538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18505538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP21285715229675.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy hearing for Sackler family\u2019s Purdue Pharma is taking place in White Plains, NY, on August 9, 2021. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As he painstakingly documents, these new drugs, fentanyl and P2P meth, are produced almost entirely in Mexico, then distributed to every corner of the U.S. through a ready-made network of immigrants \u2014 legal, illegal, and anchor babies. But Quinones seems unable to mention that Mexico is drowning our country in these poisons \u2014 without reminding us that legal pain pills paved the way! (I thought we were supposed to sneer at \u201cgateway drugs\u201d like marijuana, as a scare tactic out of \u201cReefer Madness.\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>E.g.:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201c\u2018Doctors and Big Pharma prepared the battlefield,\u2019 [a DEA agent] said, \u2018creating a market for the cartels, who then jumped at the opportunity to own the supply and feed the demand.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cTheir legal, doctor-prescribed pills led to trafficker-supplied heroin, then to illicit fentanyl; now it was meth made from sulfuric acid, lye and whatever else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cUnprecedented supplies of [P2P meth] were again unleashed coast to coast. Only this time they came not from doctors and drug companies, but from traffickers, virtually all from northwest Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cMeth thus made it to all corners of America, in something resembling how thoroughly prescription pain pills blanketed the country two decades before.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cMany of [the drug addicts] were the children of the opioid epidemic generation. Their parents were hooked first on Percocet, OxyContin, then heroin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, got it. The Sacklers are scum. Can we talk about the Mexican drug cartels now?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15272647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15272647 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Meth.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than $3 million worth of meth and fentanyl seized by Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection agents from illegal aliens who were carrying the drugs in backpacks as they crossed the border from Mexico near the Lukeville, Arizona, Port of Entry in December 2020. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol\/Tucson Sector)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13649942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13649942 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/06102020-TFO-NOG-tile-2_0.jpg\" alt=\"More than $1 million in fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine seized by CBP officers in Nogales, Arizona. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection\/Nogales Port of Entry)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than $1 million in fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine seized by Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Nogales border crossing in Nogales, AZ, on June 8, 2020, from a U.S. citizen allegedly attempting to smuggle the drugs into the country from Mexico. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection\/Nogales Port of Entry)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not only Quinones, but nearly everyone sentimentalizes drug users, arguing for widespread availability of antidotes, rehab, counseling. It\u2019s never the users\u2019 fault; they are only victims \u2014 of a sports injury, Big Pharma, the pill-mill doctors, the criminal justice system, the paucity of rehab clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of people have taken narcotics after surgeries without getting addicted, but OK, fine. Let\u2019s assume every single meth\/heroin\/fentanyl addict was prescribed OxyContin after a high school football injury.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, now they\u2019re addicts, making them predators on society, destroyers of America\u2019s towns and neighborhoods. They cause unbearable pain for their families, bankrupt them, betray them, steal from them.<\/p>\n<p>You know who else is completely blameless for becoming a predator on society? The family dog who gets bitten by a diseased raccoon and contracts rabies. Except rabies is preferable to drug addiction because, after causing mayhem for a few weeks, the dog dies. A better analogy is that the dog becomes Cujo.<\/p>\n<p>Quinones\u2019 response is: GIVE THE DOG NARCAN TO BRING IT BACK LIFE, so it can go back to being \u2026 a rabies-infested dog, preying on the family and neighbors. And also spend a kazillion dollars on clinics, programs, free food and shelter for all the rabies-infected dogs. Let them maintain their rabies in comfort \u2014 because it\u2019s not the dog\u2019s fault! It was the Sacklers, or the pill-mill doctors, or one tiny little mistake they made.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying,&nbsp;<em>Screw them, let them die, and the sooner the better.<\/em>&nbsp;But I am saying that everything in life is a trade-off, and of the 10 possible steps to save a human from drug addiction, only the first has the best chance of success.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Prevent Americans from getting addicted to drugs in the first place. Prosecute the Sacklers to the ends of the Earth \u2014 but also build a wall, deploy DEA agents at every entry point, and execute drug dealers, with alacrity and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>Steps 2-10: Expend infinite amounts of time, money, resources, charity, good will, government money, private money (which is mostly government money) to try to save those already addicted, with a success rate of about 10 percent, where success is defined as: The addict recovers well enough to become a drug rehab counselor.<\/p>\n<p>Quinones says walls won\u2019t work. I don\u2019t know. They work pretty well everywhere else, and a wall is sure better than what we have now, which is nothing. By contrast, lavishing gobs of resources on the rehab industrial-complex has been tried over and over again \u2014 and failed over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Can we just block the drugs at the border, please? Rehab is not an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the solutions, anyone who wants a gripping account of the scourge that killed 93,331 Americans in 2020 alone has to read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1635574358\/?tag=breitbart035-20\">this book<\/a>, out November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrific investigative reporter Sam Quinones, author of the 2015 book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America\u2019s Opiate Epidemic, is about to release a new book, The Least of Us: True &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1893877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}