'Monkey dust' sweeps UK with terrifying drug zombies left roaming city streets - Daily Star I can barely manage an eye roll anymore in the face of endless media reports of some new street drug horribly effing up the (ab)users. I think it started with PCP (a horse tranquilizer), then we moved onto crack, meth, the flesh eating xylazine*, & now “monkey dust” to name but a few. I’d be happy to turn a blind eye to the dire consequences, except for the collateral damage imposed when junkie vermin go off the rails and f*ck over innocent people, like these cockroaches are wont to do. I am uninterested in the kaleidoscope of pics from Seattle/SanFran/London/Manchester et al, documenting contorted bodies lying in the streets as they descend into dementia & decay, thanks to the latest plague-drug. Not f*cking interested. Let. Them. Die. It’s what they want. Remove all barriers between junkies and their fix of choice. It’s our de facto policy anyway re: the opioid crisis. We know of a certainty our Southern border is the widest of wide-open gateways thanks to Brandon & his ilk. The Repubs are just as complicit with their sanctimonious lip service and faux outrage and nothing more. It’s long past time for decent folk to decree: enough is enough. They're not taking this $hit at gunpoint - they're doing it all by themselves. Piss on 'em. No medical treatment beyond the chemicals they choose to ingest. Let them die. *...Xylazine adds multiple layers of complexity to an already treacherous drug crisis. Xylazine is a depressant. It slows a person’s breathing and heart rate, and lowers their blood pressure. An overdose can put them into a coma-like state, leaving them frozen and vulnerable for hours on the street. Xylazine has an especially devastating side effect: gruesome wounds that don’t heal. The exact reason for this still isn’t understood, but scientists suspect xylazine could be affecting blood circulation in a way that affects skin repair. That means that for someone using xylazine, something as small as a pimple or a needle puncture could turn into large sores of dying flesh, in some cases eating through to the bone...
This isn't a new drug, but it seems like the media has latched on to it because someone referred to it using the word Zombie, and they know that word will get them some clicks.
My view on drug users hasn't changed. If people choose to be drug addicts then I say go for it. But my taxes should not go to pay for their unemployment or welfare if they lose their jobs. My taxes should not go to their healthcare if they are beyond hope and repeat addicts. If addicts commit crimes, present a health hazard by crapping on the street, destroy neighborhoods or endanger anyone, then they should be sent to an island with all the other out of control addicts. Every now and then some food and drugs will be dropped in by helicopter and they can live the lives they choose to live. We would also drop in shovels so they can dig graves. In a civilized society there is no way I or anyone else should have to step over zombies on the street or need a poop map like San Francisco has. How some people find this acceptable is beyond me.
