William Breault: Stupidest man in Worcester, part 2
I remember when working as an EMT, a conversation that would spring up often was the potential of narcan for non-professional administration. If you’ve never seen the drug used it’s really an amazing thing. Watching someone who has overdosed on opiates on the nod and on the way out the door, essentially go into withdrawal and ready to OD again, all in seconds. Very neat stuff. Since an opiate overdose will obviously kill you and narcan is relatively safe drug with a short half life, it stands to reason packaging the product for self administration the same way we have epi-pens for allergic reactions, would be a no brainer.
Enter Billy Breault, the one man band known as the Main South Alliance for Public Safety, with an opinion on the grant money Worcester is getting to train opiate users on the self administration of narcan.
“We’ve had private conversations with those involved,” Mr. Breault said. “This funding is under the guise of drug prevention, but this is more about assisting than preventing.”
Yes, you disgusting fraud, it’s about assisting people in staying alive while reducing the burden on public services. How is that a bad thing? The problem with douche bags like Billy, they really believe there is a war on drugs. They thought Nixon had a real plan, believed all that Nancy Reagan bull shit, they still think D.A.R.E. is a successful program and they believe in some puritanical pipe dream that one day people will stop putting the things in their bodies that make life fun. Fear these people as they are not very bright.
This grant Worcester is receiving is an extension of a program currently running in Boston, San Francisco, New Mexico, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Chicago; modeled after successful programs in Europe. The reality of these narcan emergency kits is they save lives and arguably more importantly they save resources. They allow a user, friends or family to administer a narcan nasal spray at the first sign of overdose, which contrary to popular opinion is an anomaly for a seasoned user. So while it’s fair to be critical of the OD itself and the addiction leading to it, it’s undeniable this self administration removes an ambulance, engine company, police response and obligatory emergency room evaluation from the equation. Since the only logical argument against drug use and its affects on society is the burden it places on public resources, this sort of program is an obvious step in the right direction.
Our biggest problem with drugs in Worcester isn’t the drugs themselves. It’s pretending they don’t touch every race, economic class and political affiliation. Which is why in Worcester we’re decades behind other large cities in treatment and prevention. Until we’re honest with that fact, annoyances like Billy will continue spouting off and ignorant fools will continue to listen.
link to T&G article on the subject.
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Brendan,
I couldn’t have said it any better. This plan is about saving lives, period. Anyone who doesn’t get that is an idiot. One millisecond after reading about it, I knew I’d be reading about Billy Breault speaking out against it. I think you characterized him well.
I have never seen choices so clearly staked out. On one side LIFE=narcan, on the other side DEATH and DARKNESS=Billy Breault, City councilor Haller and Worcester City Democrats! It’s time for a change in District 4 and Worcester!
No more GRANTS for Main South Alliance for Public Safety! is more like it.
Brendan,
What’s up? Um, hey…are you, um, you know.. holding? C’mon dude, anything-just a little. Don’t bogart it, I KNOW you’re holding. Dude, don’t be that way….you used to be cool.
Most disturbing is the city’s applied extortion over the owner via forcing him to finance police detail. Why not go after the food vendor, who is encouraging the loitering, why not all that you mentioned from towing to police actually doing their job?
This is another example where Worcester’s rising fascism arrogantly gleams in our faces. It is time to clean house of the entire city administration and city council and the cronies placed in these mock commissions and committees. Time for new leaders.
Nisa
I don’t believe that BB is the stupidest. He likes being on a podium. However there are a bunch of councilors whose intelligence I seriously question. It doesn’t take brains to be a councilor - Worcester is living proof.
[Sic] Ok, ok, so I was educated in Woosta. That’s a valid excuse right?
Billy and Barbara Haller want people to die. It’s as simple as that–they’re obsessed with somehow removing from downtown Worcester people who don’t look like them. They are deluded in thinking that targeting and removing human services from the city will somehow get rid of poor people. As a result, sound and proven public health policies get obstructed at every turn and already-stressed and over-worked human service workers get harassed at every turn by this duo. Rational and compassionate citizens need to speak up in support of these life-saving programs! Thanks for this excellent, eye-opening post.
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Billy Breault is a free loader!
I was at the public safety meeting the other night and neither Haller or Breault seemed negative about the product. They did play the devil’s advocate and suggest that having it in the arms of police officers where it is a prescription drug, this would go against every law that deals with who is authorized to give it out.Are the Worcester Police Officers going to go through a meds certification to administer the drug Also that people may think that now there is an out, that if they overdose at least they know they can be brought back to life.
I am all for it, I know it has worked in Lawrence and Lowell.
But at the meeting on Thursday they did not seem to be against the use of it.
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Great, now we’re aiming to be more like Lawrence and Lowell. Ew. This city caters to the lowest of the low. When all the taxpayers leave, who will be around to foot the bill for these programs?