The fentanyl crisis boggles my mind in the sense that virtually nobody is talking about educating our children of the dangers of this drug! If the drug use dries up, the drug cartels are out of business.
Again, I know I sound like a broken record but Bloom Energy can power these AI centers WITHOUT using present electrical power! The stock has gone from $18/share to over $140/share as it has the contract to build AI centers for Oracle using technology that extracts oxygen from the atmosphere to use as a fuel source!!! No increase in Tucson Electric Power rates!!!
Excellent questions! Fentanyl, like opium has been and is used for pain. If you have a couple of minutes, read, "A Brief History of Opioids in the U.S." by Kellie Schmitt.
My hope is that council and the board of supervisors build upon the Safe City Initiative, put all of their weight into legal/ law enforcement intervention and see how well it works. Of late, they have used a mostly restorative justice/ harm reduction approach, which seems to frustrate the average Tucsconan. We do still have the white, college educated, progressive contigency who will want to use a housing first, low law enforcement model, but that is not what the everyday person in Tucson wants. If the intervention approach fails and we’ve incarcerated so many drug offenders that we can’t house violent criminals, that would definitely be an issue. But if you’ve ever worked in street outreach, you know that word travels fast in the community, and if unhoused folks hear that TPD and/or PCS are arresting and immediately prosecuting public Fentanyl use and possession, it will definitely shift behavior. I could see that kind of intervention decreasing misuse of transit, panhandling in medians, and illegal camping. Just a reminder, we are targeting the substance, not the person. These illegal behaviors come as a result of chronic substance use, and the people get caught in the crosshairs. Sadly the substance isn’t a person who we see breaking laws or misusing public spaces every day.
Was the physial therapist given due process? Probably not. The gestapo doesn't allow it.
The fentanyl crisis boggles my mind in the sense that virtually nobody is talking about educating our children of the dangers of this drug! If the drug use dries up, the drug cartels are out of business.
Again, I know I sound like a broken record but Bloom Energy can power these AI centers WITHOUT using present electrical power! The stock has gone from $18/share to over $140/share as it has the contract to build AI centers for Oracle using technology that extracts oxygen from the atmosphere to use as a fuel source!!! No increase in Tucson Electric Power rates!!!
Excellent questions! Fentanyl, like opium has been and is used for pain. If you have a couple of minutes, read, "A Brief History of Opioids in the U.S." by Kellie Schmitt.
My hope is that council and the board of supervisors build upon the Safe City Initiative, put all of their weight into legal/ law enforcement intervention and see how well it works. Of late, they have used a mostly restorative justice/ harm reduction approach, which seems to frustrate the average Tucsconan. We do still have the white, college educated, progressive contigency who will want to use a housing first, low law enforcement model, but that is not what the everyday person in Tucson wants. If the intervention approach fails and we’ve incarcerated so many drug offenders that we can’t house violent criminals, that would definitely be an issue. But if you’ve ever worked in street outreach, you know that word travels fast in the community, and if unhoused folks hear that TPD and/or PCS are arresting and immediately prosecuting public Fentanyl use and possession, it will definitely shift behavior. I could see that kind of intervention decreasing misuse of transit, panhandling in medians, and illegal camping. Just a reminder, we are targeting the substance, not the person. These illegal behaviors come as a result of chronic substance use, and the people get caught in the crosshairs. Sadly the substance isn’t a person who we see breaking laws or misusing public spaces every day.
Why are these people using Fentanyl in public? What happened to Opium Dens?