My two favorite Connecticut politicians are in a dispute with each other. Governor Ned Lamont and Senator Saud Anwar are both outstanding public servants. I like both men very much. Governor Lamont is a moderate, Senator Anwar is to his left. Senator Anwar has been the leader in the effort to create overdose prevention sites (OPCs)…
I was at a basketball tournament with my daughter last week in Louiseville, Kentucky at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The event called Run 4 the Roses draws 1,600 teams (9,000 players) and college coaches from across the United States, and 9 countries, including teams from as far away as Australia. They had 84 courts inside…
A man overdosed with his two young children in the car. The unidentified woman in the front seat next to him also overdosed. According to the children, he started falling asleep while driving and managed to pull into a parking lot, where he was found unconscious with his foot still on the brake. The woman…
According to news reports 27 people overdosed in Baltimore on Thursday on a drug packaged as “New Jack City” and possibly contaminated with Freon or antifreeze. I am guessing that the primary drug is fentanyl, but I don’t know that. The samples of “New Jack City” were given out as free samples by an as…
We respond for the “overdose.” In a lot that is littered with wax bags and other drug paraphernalia, a Spanish man is sitting alone in a row of three portable chairs in the sun. His eyes are closed, his mouth is open. He is as still as a dead man. While my partner pulls the…