by Travis Mateer
Over the weekend I discovered an interesting scene in a handicapped bathroom stall inside our trillion dollar library, the same library that wasted $365,000 dollars on a “DNA climber” that no one can climb. Since it was after hours (I was on the radio) the drug residue and paraphernalia I discovered had obviously NOT been discovered by the janitor, otherwise I assume it would have been cleaned up.
Here’s what I found:
Mocking the obvious failures of the Homeless Industrial Complex (HIC) is getting more difficult because our local homeless enablers are SO RETARDED that mockery can quickly become a reality. For example, I could try and make a joke about how sad it is that homeless drug addicts don’t have dollar bills to snort drugs with, then extend this joke to a fake program that would give dollar bills to addicts so that they can snort their drugs with dignity, but I’m worried organizations like the United Way might take a retarded idea like this seriously and actually implement it.
I mean, if they’re distributing NARCAN from machines like candy bars, how inconceivable is it that these idiots would give addicts dollar bills to snort drugs with?
This NARCAN program rolled out last March, as reported by the Montana Free Press. From the link (emphasis mine):
The United Way of Missoula County is facilitating the Dose of Hope project in partnership with the Missoula Drug Safety Coalition and Missoula Public Health in an effort to reduce the county’s opioid overdose deaths, which increased 83% from 2019 to 2022.
“We want to see those fatalities go down, and if people have access to Narcan, we’re less likely to see more overdoses,” said Leah Fitch-Brody, substance use disorder prevention coordinator for Missoula Public Health. “Even if a more potent batch of drugs is coming in with fentanyl in them or opioids in them, this can address that.”
Once installed in April, a free outdoor vending machine at the Mountain Line bus station will be accessible 24/7. People will have access to indoor machines at the Missoula Food Bank, the Johnson Street shelter and Hope Rescue Mission’s drop-in center during business hours.
The United Way received about $43,000 from the Independent Emergency Room Physicians Trust to purchase and maintain the vending machines. Narcan nasal spray for the machines will be provided for free from the state through a federal grant.
Despite new programs and more money being thrown at the crisis of addiction and homelessness, it just keeps getting worse. What do they say about people who do the same thing while expecting different results? They say those people are FUCKING CRAZY.
The bathroom where I found the drugs and paraphernalia has a special place to dispose of needles. This bathroom also has the conventional trash technology known as TRASH CANS. Both of these convenient receptacles were NOT USED by the drug addict. Go figure.
The following day, after doing the radio show with my friend, I walked downtown near the library and found the perfect bottle of empty wine left at the bus stop right across from the library. I don’t usually stage photo-ops, but I couldn’t help myself. I placed the empty bottle on the bench and took a picture before the walking across the street and putting the trash where it belongs.
Going back to the retarded article about the retarded program run by retards, it’s always important to highlight how “marginal populations” are affected, like Indians (feathers, not dots). Here’s some numbers that show how caring our local media is when it comes to Indians doing drugs:
Montana’s Native American population is disproportionately affected by overdoses, Fitch-Brody said. In 2022, the drug overdose death rate among American Indian/Alaska Native residents was 67.9 per 100,000 people, compared to 15.6 per 100,000 among white Montanans, according to the health department.
Lack of Narcan accessibility is one of various factors that play into the disparity, Fitch-Brody said.
How many in-patient treatment beds exist across the state for drug addicts? This article doesn’t provide that information, but it should, because if more Montanans knew how little help there was for people, we would be less inclined to let retarded service providers coddle an entire sub-culture of drug users who move like water to the lowest places of least resistance.
If this retarded town and its kangaroo-run courts have their way, my criticism of non-profit HIC enablers will no longer be protected by the first amendment.
Why do I persist, you might be wondering. Am I just an angry former service provider trying to settle scores with my former colleagues?
On Sunday, after I cleaned up drugs INSIDE the library and the empty wine bottle outside it, my little girl went to the library to get books, and it’s for her and her brothers that I persist in exposing all the people who once appreciated and respected my role at the Poverello Center from 2008-2016, people like Ellie Boldman, the former director of the Pov.
If you appreciate the many sacrifices I’ve had to make to continue doing my local work, please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.
Thanks for reading!
Completely stupid framing from the “Free Press” here:
“disproportionately affected by overdoses”
Comparing native (feather) deaths to white deaths saying that access to narcan is what creates the disparity between white and native deaths without even mentioning that whites have the same accessibility (if not arguably less accessibility) to narcan than “vulnerable populations” that get them placed in places they are more likely to frequent.
Pure race-baiting and racism from the “Free Press”. And its worse than that because instead of dealing with the cultural issues amongst their own population that cause this “disproportionate” affect it becomes about not enough narcan being distributed to drug addicts.
I recommend MTFP and United Way retards lurking here read “How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence” by Adolph Reed Jr. It is a quick essay, but it will definitely fracture their brains.
https://nonsite.org/how-racial-disparity-does-not-help-make-sense-of-patterns-of-police-violence-2/
Heaven forbid that addicts get access to life-saving Narcan. Let ’em die, right Trav?
Yes, that’s right. People die in war, Pete, and this is a war.
Putting up vending machines so polite society can continue ignoring the problem is not a compassionate response, Talbot, you twat waffle.
So, we can’t do both? To try to put a stop to overdoses while working on the bigger problems contributing to addiction? Sounds like you’re the “twat waffle” here.