Recently, more than 70 people overdosed on K2 in the New Haven Green, a public park near Yale — in one day. In the chaos, multiple municipal staff and emergency services personnel ran frantically to help countless individuals who may or may not have wanted help. The day after, I biked by and saw two ambulances and police sirens. These issues are not solved in a day, and might not be for a while. At night, that park is poorly lit, and wafts of marijuana and garbage are all over the place.
In Connecticut and nationally, the immediate public response is how there could be such massive numbers of overdoses.
Let’s just say I’m not at all surprised. The health care system of today is not at all equipped to fully address this tragic public health problem.
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