As soon as I saw HuffPo in the URL, I knew he didn't say that. But even I was shocked by the level of sheer stupidity in the article.
We need to ban HuffPo.
For those who don't want to give HuffPo the clicks, all he did was ban a particular drug that he thinks does nothing to help addicts, and he issued a perfectly mature and bureaucratic-sounding statement. The 12-year-old author inserted the "drop dead", the tagline says "no seriously, that's pretty much what he said."
Wulfric, you damn fool, shame on you for creating this thread and shame on you for reading the Huffington post.
No, it wasn't mature or nonsensical.
<<“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” LePage wrote.
It was not the first time LePage had shared such a belief, but attaching it to his veto elevated it to a statement of official policy.
“Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction,” he wrote.>
So better addicts don't get access to a medicine without which they WILL DIE because they'll just overdose later anyway, and reviving an overdose victim from the brink of death instead of their actually winding up in the morgue somehow "normalizes" heroin addiction?
So he didn't LITTERALLY say "heroin addicts can drop dead". How much of an obtuse apologist does one have to be to avoid acknowledging that is UNQUESTIONABLY the message he expressly and purposely conveyed?!?
