Heroin OD Spike
Anyone else notice an uptick in heroin overdoses?
- SCC,
CFD paramedic on the west side. Don't know if you heard, but we have ambulances doing 30 and 40 runs a shift the past few days, all related to another f&%^ed up batch of heroin. So far we're saving maybe 75% of junkies, but the number of deaths is at least as high as a few years back when the media was all over it. Why not now?
Maybe the media has learned that no one really cares about dead junkies.
So...anyone notice?
So...anyone notice?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
90 Comments:
Who cares if they're dead or alive? Who cares if the media noticed or not? Waste of space SCC.
No I don't care about dead junkies. And no I won't dispense the shot that some suburban departments now carry. Junkies are the lowest of the low. Good riddance.
It would be interesting to see how many people in the suburbs are impacted by this as well.
Heroin is not just "in the ghetto". A lot of suburban kids/people are on it as well.
Just another "hospitalization tax" on those paying into Blue Cross.
Add the junkies (and THEIR hospital costs) to the shootings list.
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
Fetanyl again?
Or is it some other synthetic crap from China?
How many ODs per week in Chicago?
Is it heroin or is it pills?
Maybe the more dead junkies the better,or the mayor told the media to ignore it all.
First.why are they saving them? They will come back only doing more crime.
Don't the EMTS carry narcan?
Are police officers being issued it too?
#whitejunkielivesmattertoo
Wait until W-18 hits town if it's not already here..
To many ems runs on the westside!
I care if they are dead or alive. We all know there are things we simply cannot change, things that are difficult to change or leave us with incredible frustration because solutions seem so simple. But one day even junkies were the excitement, hopes and dreams of someone until that intersection with fate. Do not lose your humanity first poster. This is why the people this blog is dedicated to are the police and do what they do. (same for the firemen and EMTS too) I know this is true from the many I know. You my friend may be on that road to that intersection. Be careful.
2 CFD ems drivers were battered today in 010 because of an OD. Guess they gave the dude his wake up shot and he popped up and started to attack them.
Rumor is the det.'s didn't want to do shit...... shocking...
The media's not covering it because they are too busy bashing Trump.
I have always not felt too bad for drug addicts since they chose to be on the road to destruction.... if maybe more would start dropping like flies they would decide to get treatment and quit using the crap, if not crime will go down and a lot of useless piles of trash would be gone.
Two last night on 2514's beat. Within a couple hours. Dealer nearby?
Darwin is dealing with the junkies. Let him do his job without interference.
Hey paramedic...who fucking cares? They should send more bad heroin out there
My dreams come true.
Seems like every corner has these freak who are a waste of air begging. Yet every day gullible hand out cash for the junky fund.
Wasn't 'heroin' the Sunday cover story on the suntimes? I didn't read the article but I saw the paper at the local 7 11
If a person is charged with drug-induced homicide (720 ILCS 5/9-3.3), would the UCR code of the offense change to 0110??
Will the department (meaning those with gold stars, or the mayor even) allow those cases of persons who die from drug overdose be classified as murder?? Will the department allow our already depleted resources be used to investigate these overdoses as homicides?
Highly unlikely with the high number of homicides alread. Can you imagine our homicide rate going up with these overdose numbers added? just think, for almost every overdose death, someone did deliver the substance that resulted in death, and therefore should be investigated as a drug induced murder.
Sad to say for the families of the deceased that the case will be classified as non-criminal and the deaths will go on.
Tomas Milian's General Salazar from the 2001 film, TRAFFIC, had the finest response when asked by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy what he planned to do regarding treatment of junkies. The response: "Treatment? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose, and it's one less to worry about." Simple, pragmatic solution.
It's a shame taxpayer money is being pissed away on this Naloxone tomfoolery.
M.F.
Will the bathrooms the junkies use be gender neutral?
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
5/17/2016 01:18:00 AM
NEVER be part of the problem, find a solution! If a CB# is drawn before the person dies, there's no PCS court AND you get activity for VRI. Definitely worth the extra effort people!
This is why KJ is coming back to be Commander, to save the day!
A thinning of the herd.
Blogger americanlt said...
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
5/17/2016 01:18:00 AM
Are you a special kind of stupid or what?
Why are you trying to egg-on even more
hard charger dumb shit?
Foot/vehicle chase and eventual
fuck-up/junkie dies in custody/
wad-up ANOTHER department
vehicle/constant shit talk about
how the rest of everybody is a
dog if they don't fuck around
and play the dope game...
Times are a-changing, you big dummy.
Fewer fucks are being given all around
and you're shit-talking about letting these
nasty little shits go?
Policemen are tied in knots dealing
with more pressing issues like
surviving these hard times.
Priorities an' shit.
Whether you like it or not.
let the junkies die, no great loss.
Culling the herd.
The problem is when you or one of your family members need an ambulance it will take forever because they are too busy picking up junkies. Fuck em they are pieces of shit. Yes I have a family member who is one I'm sure a lot do and again I say fuck em pieces of shit
"Wait until W-18 hits town if it's not already here..."
5/17/2016 05:18:00 AM
That is one of the "too potent and dangerous to be used for anything at all" experimental compounds that the Chinese pharmas scraped the worldwide patent records to find.
China is at war with us.
One suburb had FIVE ODs all at the same "party" the other day. Narcan all around...
"Heroin is not just "in the ghetto". A lot of suburban kids/people are on it as well."
5/17/2016 01:18:00 AM
Since Mayor Daley II kicked over the 'jets and scattered their contents for fifty miles around as a sick, malicious going-away present to us all, it's as far out as Batavia now. West sub chiefs have been going nuts for quite a while now.
Put some license plate readers around the Independence exit on the Ike and you won't believe what'll come up.
I recently read a news article about this 'spike' in Heroin OD's. The article was about a week ago, and the OD's were happening the in suburbs.
Sorry, can't recall more. But it wasn't much of an article, it was pretty short. It might show up in Google, or Bing, search of news articles.
btw, anyone use the DuckDuckGo search engine? It doesn't track you like the 'big ones'. They say their users privacy is their top concern.
"How many ODs per week in Chicago?
"Is it heroin or is it pills?"
5/17/2016 01:54:00 AM
Don't have a number, but it's probably more heroin.
There are undoubtedly a lot more "hidden," slower deaths from liver failure caused by the acetaminophen added to milder pain meds like Norco. They recently reduced the APAP from 500-600 mg/tablet to 325 mg, but still -- a couple are OK for an injury, but abusers chew up a dozen and wash it all down with a 40, and you have a problem.
Over 75 drug-smuggling tunnels under our southern border so far, and guys building drug-smuggling submarines up in the backwaters of the Amazon -- what to do, what to do? Mess with old people at the drugstore.
Why are they saving them?
During the 1st fetanyl episode a few years back, I had occasion to talk to one of the long time neighborhood junkies in 015. Told me that when they hear about heroin nearly killing people, junkies actually seek out that particular batch of heroin.
He said no junkie ever believes they'll overdose. Said "That shit only happens to muffukas who don't know what da fuk they doin".
With that mindset, junkies believe the shit that nearly kills you, must be a helluva high. So, winners that they are, they seek out the killer shit. Which explains why the spikes in od's are mostly contained to one relatively small geographical area. Usually, the wesside... 011 or 015.
Junkies...Gotta love'm.
More dummies on drugs dying from being addicted?
Poor choices have bad consequences -- as they should.
Unless someone else is actually making them put the needle in their arm or anywhere else (which I highly doubt), "it's just Darwin in action".
Anonymous Anonymous said...
No I don't care about dead junkies. And no I won't dispense the shot that some suburban departments now carry. Junkies are the lowest of the low. Good riddance.
5/17/2016 12:59:00 AM
You're an asshole. You shouldn't be in police work, if you are in fact a copper. Ever hear of empathy? Might try it sometime. There are kids who might try this shit that are not true junkies but with assholes like you out there who refuse to help you are sentencing them to death for a one time mistake. Imagine what their families would have to go through. I'm sure some of the kids who OD and are saved by a dose of Narcan will wake up and decide it was not worth dying for and never use again. But that won't happen if some jagoff like you gets the job. Asshat!
Natural selection. The thinning of the herd so that the stronger survive.
Sorry, as a non officer resident of Aurora/Naperville I could not care less. Stick a needle in your arm and you pay the price. Neil Young called it a long time ago.
OT...thanks for all you guys and ladies do.
Haha exactly, W-18 has to be measured in nanograms and idiots mixing their shit to make a extra dime won't get rid of hot spots that accumulate in nanograms. There will be more like this and worse in the coming years.
WGAF about junkies, nothing but a blight on society. I feel for their families, don't give a tinker's damn about them
Every big city copper has seen a "Narcan save" just get up and exit the Ambo. If they don't care, why should we?
Just over the weekend in LaPorte county Indiana (three counties from Chicago) there were three saves and possibly two DOA's from 'her-on'. The shit is everywhere, pushers need to be stood up and shot where they stand.
That's why they call CFD the "Heroes".
They should let them all die. They are a drain on society. I hope my agency never gets narcan.
It just thins the herd! you want to "dance with the devil" then you can go meet him quickly! Now according to today propaganda paper the times Eddie Burke is going to make a mental health unit inside cpd! they are going to have a boss "lieutenant or above" and 8 full time coppers! Will the boss be an "examscam 2016" member? 8 coppers that will cover what citywide? Another waste if money, Eddie how about hiring maybe another thousand coppers and train them to be "first responders" to any of the numerous "he be crazee" calls?
Then down near the end of the article a punks family, yes that punk who drove his car into coppers and was given the proper dirt nap his family gets a 2.2 million taxpayers payout! Same thug that georgeie cardenas went to bat for, wonder george what was your cut? You guys split it? Was the punk illegally here? Will President Trump gear up the feds to raid cityhall,county building and statehouse? Praying it happens!
EMT's carry narcan, I carry DILIGAF and for the truly hardcore cases DILIGAF+. We need a CTA bus sized "roach motel" scattered around the "affected areas". Streets and San could pick up and replace as necessary. "Junkies check in but they don't check out".
Stay fetal.
Several police officers kids have died from heroin od's. It's becoming a huge problem in the suburbs. Teens are now the customers, not the junkies from years gone by. These kids can get it like we did booze years ago. Read up on it before you demonize kids you may know.
If you want to bring a nation down, flood it with narcotics. Destroy generations and bring the civilized nation to its knees. Encourage gateway drugs such as marijuana and then encourage “casual” use of the hard stuff like heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and their derivatives. Get them good and hooked. Then offer publically available sources of cash without accountability to purchase illegal narcotics ensuring foreign drug cartels prosper.
Further encourage casual use by public policy justifying continued narcotic abuse by declaring it a disease and through de-criminalization in the courts. And when the addicts die in droves, blame budget cuts and lack of public funding diverting attention from personal bad decisions resulting in personal destruction. Tug at the heart strings of the public by introducing addicts who were unable to seek funded treatment because of slashed public budgets and ineffective funding initiatives.
Widespread drug addiction is just another mechanism to destroy western culture as we know it. Be sure to use grieving families as advocates used as a tool to capture public sympathy for more public funding elevating those compassionate elected officials. And if anyone objects to wasting more public money, characterize them as mean spirited, unsympathetic, uncompassionate villains who are attempting to block the good intentions saving lives rehabbing those who suffer from drug afflictions.
Casual heroin use was an experiment at the Needle Park in Switzerland in the 80's. A whole generation was lost. Seattle Washington has over 20,000 homeless, unemployable addicts who panhandle and commit property crimes on a daily basis to fund the high. Seattle decriminalized drug use and their successes have destroyed American children and American families. Compassion in Action. Chicagoland is next and is a work in progress.
Wait until W-18 hits town if it's not already here..
It has. Had one about a week ago. Definitely some strange stuff
Its shame but where are the families. So many aspiring artists, musicians and actors couldn’t handle the fame from their nine to five turning to narcotics to ease their pain of being famous. It is perfectly accepted norm in entertainment. So called role models for our children.
The courts intervene saying its small amounts but in reality they are the enablers of a guaranteed downward spiral of addiction. And think of the murder problem. How many shootings are a result of a drug turf war over those fat stacks of Benjamins? Shame on you judges cloaked in black robes turning a blind eye not jailing addicts and dealers. Rather judges line up in compliance with the political party in charge established protocol for turning a blind eye to the consequences of drug use. The violence and overdoses are accepted everyday life in parts of the city while police are the identified problem.
It is by design to ensure destruction and despair in certain communities which receives an inordinate amount of government compassion in the form of entitlements easily converted to cash ensuring a lucrative illegal narcotic trade in a firmly established counterculture.
It takes a caring, loving, involved family to discourage criminal behavior by encouraging their loved one to exercise the courage to "Just Say NO"! It doesn't take a village just an individual to understand right from wrong and the consequences.
Thought the users had narcan, to prevent this.
Blogger americanlt said...
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
5/17/2016 01:18:00 AM
Show us how it's done hot shot!
Who cares? Anyone with a small pcs pinch will be in deep shit when the aclu wonders how you discovered such a small amount regardless if it's lethal. This is what they wanted!
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
Go to hell. Why don't u sit in a branch court and watch the judge throw out every case that is less then 1 gram on no pc regardless of if there was abundant pc. We can lock up every junky who will then be promptly released to sue and claim racist police are focusing on the wrong crime.
maybe this will wake the drug addicted up
No, I didn't notice.
But, hey......
How much VRI can I work on furlough?
Also a CFD paramedic here. Lots of bad heroin going around. Reviving these lowlifes left and right. Definitely seen a huge uptick in ODs, but its only a big deal when it goes back to Naperville, lol
If you let them die you would be doing their families a favor.
Who fucking cares!!!!
Dead junkies are good junkies, and that's the truth.
Now that it's a a Naperville, Plainfieled, Oak Park, ect.... its a problem. And the guys in 10 or 11 that let these rich shits go are part of the problem. The "I am addict" excuse has been going on for decades. And if you don't arrest for PCS you are part of the problem.
Seriously it's the PO's fault? So lock up the suburbanites for one or two blows, deal with the arrest drama and the the judges throw it out in probable cause. How's that the PO's fault? Crook County and the Dems what it this way. More people dependant on the system. No nonviolent offenders in jail.
nonymous said...
No I don't care about dead junkies. And no I won't dispense the shot that some suburban departments now carry. Junkies are the lowest of the low. Good riddance.
5/17/2016 12:59:00 AM
I could speculate that you are showing your prejudice. Heroin is common in the South Suburbs and there are plenty of good people getting caught up in it. Once addicted then yes, they will turn into thieves to support their habit. Homer Glen is having a terrible problem. The kids are telling the adults that they don't believe the adults when they say these drugs are bad because the adults lied about marijuana, which is not on its way to being legal. I say watch your own kids very close, everyone is at risk
No need to worry, Super KJ is coming back to 189 and is on the way!
He's being brought in to crack the whip.
We just heard that ALL of OCD will be losing our cars because of all the overdoses and that because Narcotics and Gangs ain't doing shit about the increase in murders and shootings on the west/south sides that they are taking our only perk away. They're saying that there is no need for us to have take home cars. No problem, I'm outta here biotches! Back to days in a decent district (022) with no stress or quotas!
Good luck in da ghetto boyzzzzz!
I think the junkies should be given a chance. Once, maybe twice. After that, tattoo them Do Not Resuscitate.
Get them dried out and give them a choice. Treatment and back to the streets, where they need to test every two weeks for a few years, and jail if they screw up.
OR
Treatment and exile to a drug free area where they need to work hard for a few years. Build up a stake, and a better attitude so they can succeed in life.
I think many of the, "let em die hard-asses" here would be shocked who we deal with. I'm seeing late teens early 20's, graduates of St Ignatius, St Pats, Loyola, Rita, all same story, its starts with strong pharmaceutical pain pills for a sports injury and they get hooked. Its then cheaper and easier to get heroin.
Lives are ruined for the addict and the family. Some really good parents are crushed, but people do recover from this. If you don't think this is running thru some police families or going to effect someone you know and maybe even love, you are delusional.
My Wifes cousin died of a Heroin overdose this past week,He was a good Irish kid from a Rich family,Heroin Dealers should be Executed.
Why? Because your President is pardoning dope dealers by the thousands that's why
Media covering for scumbags obama, Hitlery, Rahmmie Commie, and Devilcrats
"Anonymous said...
Hey paramedic...who fucking cares? They should send more bad heroin out there
5/17/2016 07:34:00 AM"
Medics can't help themselves..."I'm a westside medic". They are the original "I'm a vegan!", "I do crossfit!" guys/gals. They never shut up about how hard they are.
You are saving 75% of the junkies? Why?
You're an asshole. You shouldn't be in police work, if you are in fact a copper. Ever hear of empathy? Might try it sometime. There are kids who might try this shit that are not true junkies but with assholes like you out there who refuse to help you are sentencing them to death for a one time mistake. Imagine what their families would have to go through. I'm sure some of the kids who OD and are saved by a dose of Narcan will wake up and decide it was not worth dying for and never use again. But that won't happen if some jagoff like you gets the job. Asshat!
Oh boo hoo. What's wrong your kid a junkie because you are to busy working side jobs and vri to pay for you new car and harley? It's called thinning of the herd.
Self-righteous hypocrites. Every time an officer does something clearly illegal, unethical, un constitutional or even just plain old stupid there are a few people on here crying for their support even when it is completely undeserved.
Now we're talking about junkies and hypes and the prevailing thought is let them die. Do I blame them for their use and addiction? Yes. Do I think anyone owes it to them to supply Narcan to cops and EMS to save them from overdoses? No. But I don't enjoy seeing them die, their fault or not. I've had enough addicts and alcoholics in my family. I have yet to see one funeral where everyone is relieved. I think people would be more relieved had they died in a car crash than the way they slowly killed themselves.
Some of you are going to bite your words when that dope hits closer to home. And you'll wish you had more compassion for someone else's kid or family when you see how much of this life is outside of your control. It's one thing to believe you are responsible to save them. It's another to say I don't care if they live or die. I pity you when those words haunt you because no one else cares whether someone lives or dies except you.
Take your time.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Heroin is not just "in the ghetto". A lot of suburban kids/people are on it as well."
5/17/2016 01:18:00 AM
Since Mayor Daley II kicked over the 'jets and scattered their contents for fifty miles around as a sick, malicious going-away present to us all, it's as far out as Batavia now. West sub chiefs have been going nuts for quite a while now.
Put some license plate readers around the Independence exit on the Ike and you won't believe what'll come up.
5/17/2016 10:13:00 AM
Yeah...the projects coming down introduced dope to the western suburbs. Sure thing. By the way, since the jets coming down "scattered their contents for fifty miles around" why are the poor victimized suburbanites coming all the way into the city to get blows when surely there are some entrepreneurs much closer to home? Oh I know! They would like to support diversity and help aid the local economy in impoverished neighborhoods. It's their way of giving a little something to the less fortunate.
I got a great idea "BUILD A WALL"
If they didn't take heroin, they wouldn't die. Simple. No sympathy for drug addicts. Zero. Signed, citizen
"btw, anyone use the DuckDuckGo search engine? It doesn't track you like the 'big ones'. They say their users privacy is their top concern."
5/17/2016 10:19:00 AM
Startpage is the bomb. Scrubs your information off the search, then sends it to Google. Set Startpage to "use EU servers only," and it puts things under the stricter Internet privacy laws over there.
Ghostery is another good program; blocks trackers. Go to a page like the Tribune and you'll see it stopping 15 or 20 of them. Can't dig coal or make steel here anymore, so it's come down to selling crappy little information about each other.
Guess the heroin OD capitol of the U.S.
Morgantown, W. Va.
The Obama "War On Coal" has really pushed some deep despair into the coal fields -- as Hillary found out during the primaries there.
64 years old, I've been banged up in car , bicycle and motorcycle crashes, plus in fights with police fighters, mentals and drunks. Got all kinds of injuries, not injuries from playing children's games like sports. Never was offered opiates, never asked for opiates, I'm doing just fine on 20 mile bicycle rides, 2 hour workouts on the gym , blood work is fine , not over weight , diabetic, or diagnosed with a bogus mental disorder like anxiety or depression treated with more rx drugs to cloud the brain. As the good book says " many are called, few are chosen" /I don't apologize for being at the right side of any bell curve that exists/ I became the superman that I am due to choices I made daily over a period of decades/ make different choices, get different outcomes/ western society is over, maybe I get 25 or 30 more years to live, don't regret having more/ the plug has been pulled and western society is down the drain/ thank my professors at UW Madison and yes st ignatious for that/asshole Jesuits at ignatious told me in 1966-1970 when I went there it was my fault the blacks rioted in the 60s and held me up on my way home from going to school there because as a white 14 year old kid I was the black mans oppressor so I was justly robbed/ they also said girls are sinful, a distraction , a source of evil , and other reasons to keep girls out of ignatious/ oh , but then the baby boom ended and they changed their tune so they could bring in more money / fuck ignatious and most of the asshole south side Irish I went to school with / legalized drugs, opiate drugs, everybody has a choice/ as robert plant sang,there are two roads you can follow/ which road one takes determines ones destination/ I took the right road / don't feel sorry for those who took the wrong road/ it was their choice/ as Lou reed sang in his song "heroin" , "I have made a big decision"/ make the right decisions, live the good life
What ever happened to personal responsibility? If you decide to do drugs, you suffer the consequences. Drug addicts spread disease, commit crimes and cost taxpayers a lot of money. We pay enough taxes supporting the welfare leeches, illegals and the refugees. I don't have to be happy someone died, but I also don't have to be really sad. Again, consequences of actions an individual decided to take.
Could we add those number's to homicide rate, it seem's like someone messed
with the batch?
very criminal!
As a PO I learned a long time ago, don't fuck with emt's, nurses and doctors. You never know when you are gonna be on your back getting taken care of by that same person. Any copper who feels otherwise has a screw loose. You never know how your day will end. Don't piss off the guy/girl whose about to stick a needle in your arm!
Just over the weekend in LaPorte county Indiana (three counties from Chicago) there were three saves and possibly two DOA's from 'her-on'. The shit is everywhere, pushers need to be stood up and shot where they stand.
5/17/2016 11:32:00 AM
That's a disgusting and terrible thing to say!!! Why should they be forced to stand up before being shot? Just shoot them where they lie or sit!
talked to a woman today in Nortlake she said it's in her kids high school also, this poison is everywhere,and the dumb white kids coming into Chicago's jungles to purchase, hope ISP gets more involved and takes some expensive fancy cars away,maybe their jughead liberal parents will notice then!
Phil the Thrill said...
&c.
5/18/2016 07:14:00 AM
Thank you for enlightening us about "bogus medical conditions" and so forth, but I think that I'll continue to rely on the advice and good counsel of a competent M.D.
"The Obama "War On Coal" has really pushed some deep despair into the coal fields -- as Hillary found out during the primaries there."
Newsflash The Coal Industry has been dying a slow death the last 40 years. The few remaining mines left are non Union shops that when there's an accident they declare bankruptcy and leave this poor souls lying in the lurch. These people have a work ethic but their elected officials who are about as corrupt as the come who do nothing in the way of providing them educational training to better themselves.
There's a saying when people don't have hope they turn to dope whether it's using or selling. It's a situation that will only get worse.
The Progressive Democrats have made proactive policing impossible. More will die as a direct result of their political nonsense and that is a cold hard fact.
Who benefits from the police having their hands tied? Who loses?
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