Enabled-bodied citizens.

This is a complete disgrace. (h/t Instapundit)

Everything about it is disgusting, from the smug can-do look of the woman in the picture to the exhortation not to be ashamed that you are using heroin. "Let's Prevent Overdose" is the intention, and yes, it is a real New York City Department of Health program. They want you to be careful with the needles you use to inject illegal drugs into your veins (which can be in interesting places like your bumhole and your eyeball when other veins are not available). They want you to be able to get free Narcan on the taxpayer's dime while you render yourself useless. They act like fentanyl is the problem, not the fucking heroin.

There's so very much here to hate, and for such very good reasons, that it's hard to know where to start. So I'll just focus on the main thing: 

DON'T BE ASHAMED THAT YOU ARE USING.

Why not? Heroin is the most awful drug out there. Drunks, stoners, pill poppers, crackheads, and methmouths all look down on heroin junkies. Compared to someone using heroin, the others are models of functional addiction. By taking heroin, you are guaranteed to be supporting the enemies of your country, the beasts that ravage Mexico, the creeps whipping up fentanyl, the punks that turn poor neighborhoods into no-fly zones and shoot up block parties -- in short, every kind of evil human being on the face of the planet. 

KEEP YOURSELF AND YOUR COMMUNITY SAFE.

If there is anyone in your life who gives the slightest damn for you, heroin ensures that you will wring that person dry as a twenty-year-old lemon. No stone will be unturned in the quest to take everything from that person and transfer it to the people I described in the previous paragraph. 

If you shouldn't be ashamed that you are using this monster of a drug, what in this world can you actually be ashamed of? On the list of things for which one may be ashamed, it is above genocide and school shootings and rape and below pretty much everything else.

BE EMPOWERED THAT YOU ARE USING SAFELY.

I have seen the low cunning in the eyes of the Big H user, the look that keeps asking itself "Is he buying it? Is he buying it?" And I can say without reservation that no one is safe around the heroin addict.

Municipal morons who put together campaigns like this will tell you they're saving lives. Sure, until the next time. Addicts are the greatest liars on this earth, and there is no point in coddling them in any form. It just makes it easier for them to skip along that road to hell. It does them no favors.

Don't be ashamed that you are using. Yes, be very, very, ashamed, so ashamed that you can't even look in the mirror, and then go do something about it and win back your self-respect. No one has to die from this garbage. And no one should be lying about what it is, either. 

Maybe that smug "can-do" woman should have had her arm up like the woman in the famous World War II poster. With a needle sticking out of it.