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Are you saying that people who nearly died from OD have a good change of becoming productive members of society?
by dennisgorelik 11y ago
Are you saying that people who nearly died from OD have a good change of becoming productive members of society?
- JshWright 11y agoIgnoring your implication that someone must be "productive" to be worth saving from death... You don't have to go any further than this comment page to find likely examples of that (there are personal accounts of opiate abuse, and it's probably a safe bet that someone who bothers to read Hacker News meets some definition of "productive member of society").
- dennisgorelik 11y ago1) Existence of individual examples is not a proof of good probability of recovering from drug overdose into productive member of society. 2) Our society already has mechanisms that help in case of OD: People usually try to call 911 if they see someone in a bad shape. The question is whether we need to spend more resources on helping fixing OD cases or may be spend these resources on other good causes.