You often hear stories that you wouldn’t hear in the media.
Last Tuesday, I heard some of those sad tales.
There’s a guy who frequent the Soup Kitchens and shelters in both Saint John and the Capital.
We will call him 333!
He wasn’t a bad guy. He had red hair and he was a hard drunk. He was a very nice guy when he was sober but after a few drink of Listerine?
Well lets say that he was in another world.
You could tell that he was tired of that life.
333 once told me during the cold January winter winds – Hey? There’s should be a place for us to go to escape the cold!!!!
You could tell that he was sick of the life of an alcoholic.
Anyway? 333 finally got his wish!
Someone found him in this exact position under some hedges.
He took a turn for the worse and last week the family pulled the plug on the poor soul.
His problems were finally over but the sad or scary part is that I was told that 4 other individuals who died during the last month alone.
These are the same people who drinks Listerine to get their high!
As you know, there’s two of them located in my building I board in.
They’re not bad people! They just have a problem and they don’t bother me at all!
It’s strange that these people died during the summer months and not during the cold hard windy winter?
So? Why are these poor souls dropping dead like flies lately???
Did we always have this problem? Are these people expected to die? Is this all part of life because alcoholism has been around for centuries?
You tell me because I believe that 5 deaths from the same crowd is very suspicious!
May God Bless their poor souls!!!!
4 comments:
I would like to comment on this blog if I may. I have known most of these people you have mentioned My question to the Current regeme is this, How many more good people are going to have to loose their lives for this Government to get its act together. I have lost friends and aquaintences to the Addiction of Alcohol and other Substance abuse, I have to ask myself how would these social workers and Politicians like it if the public treated them with the same disregard that they are treating many of our fellow citizens who find themselves in these unfortunate situations. These people we find on our streets who are cought up in an addiction that they just cannot shake, many of them if not all of them would like to be able to have some kind of normal life, free from the redicule and worthlessness that society heaps upon them. Many of them need to be forced to seek real help to get rid of the addiction of illegal substances and for some it will mean tough love tacticks, but it needs to be done if these people are going to have any kind of decent and meaningful life. Also the christian Community needs to open their doors to our fellow citizens. I also believe that we should not sponsor any of these needle exchange programs, or Methedone clinics. Also the Acohol and Drug treatment program should be compulsury for anyone who is recieving assistance from government agencies, it should be at least a Three year program Sponsored by the Government of Canada, as well as the Provincial and Municipal Counterparts. Also the treatment facility should be somewhere outside the city or province so the people who are compelled to under go these kinds of programs don't come out of the program clean and end up back in the same mess or an even worse mess then they were in before they started to get the help they needed so very much. All of humanity deserves to be treated with the same Compassion,Courtesy, Respect and Dignity as a human being. So let us all get our act together and with the help of God, we can hopefully shine some kind of light and be a ray of hope to those in our society and community who need a little love and encouragement.
Can I ask why you're against needle exchange and methadone clinics?
Also, I don't think we can force anyone to do anything they don't want to. (in reference to your comments about tough love tactics) It's fine to call for rounding people up to healp, but if the State were to start doing that, then they would be decried for violating civil liberties and "kidnapping" people, even if it was for their own good.
Lastly, while I do believe Christian organizations can be of assistance, I would hope it wouldn't be exclusively the role of Christian churches (there are many others). Also I would hope that accepting help would not also mean having to accept God - a concept not everyone believes in.
Methadone and needle exchanges are band-aid solutions if no counselling is available. AIDS NB promotes the needle exchange and is looking for tons of money to do more. They shouldb be looking for money to provide counselling to get the addicts off the drugs not make it safer to continue illegal activity.
Cool - thanks for the clarification!
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