Tranq scourge
I agree together with your July 12 editorial (“Cease Normalizing Tranq”) decrying the New York Metropolis Division of Well being’s misguided advert marketing campaign normalizing the lethal drug xylazine (road identify “tranq”), the flesh-eating substance used to deal with animals in veterinary medication.
Tranq is, usually, being unwittingly offered to customers in preparations of heroin and fentanyl, making a poisonous combine resulting in dying from overdose in addition to rotting physique sores and ulcers.
In keeping with the FDA, the drug agonist naloxone, successfully used as a device to stop overdose deaths, doesn’t work with tranq since it isn’t an opioid. As well as, tranq shouldn’t be detected in routine toxicology screening.
I assist the harm-reduction mannequin as a method to an finish, that finish aim being a bridge to an accepted therapy program the place legit medicines for opioid dependancy, comparable to methadone or buprenorphine, can be found.
The underside line is that tranq shouldn’t be taken by people, and it’s insanity for town’s harm-reduction facilities to help customers in any approach to ingest or inject this poison.
Anthony Scro, Whitestone
LaBella’s ego
Vito LaBella’s failure to depart the race for Metropolis Counsel illustrates an entitlement that ensures the vote will probably be cut up and that the uselessness of the New York Conservative Occasion will proceed (“Break up imperils GOP in B’klyn forty third,” July 9).
Ego-driven LaBella and the equally hopeless Conservative Occasion ignore the admonition of William F. Buckley, an early chief of the conservative motion: You vote “for probably the most proper, viable candidate who may win.” That isn’t LaBella, however Ying Tan.
The Conservative Occasion in New York is headed to the dustbin of historical past, the place the Liberal Occasion of New York now resides. The Conservative Occasion ought to embrace Ying Tan, however is as an alternative sending the message: Asians needn’t apply.
No marvel the Democrats dominate town and state.
Francis Rushford, Bay Ridge
Sanctuary chaos
Mayor Adams inherited the mess New York Metropolis is in, on account of Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s horrendous administration (“ ‘Crushing’ horde,” July 12).
One easy sentence must be mentioned: “We’re not a sanctuary metropolis.”
Consider it or not, there are some individuals who don’t notice the adverse impact the inflow of migrants is having on our metropolis. The place is the cash coming from to assist these folks? The place are we getting the $7.9 million a day?
That cash might be used to assist with crime, faculties and housing for the aged and homeless, and for precise residents who pay taxes and work and reside right here.
Cuts to metropolis companies will proceed if our mayor and governor don’t get up and converse for the residents. Have they got the center?
It isn’t the fault of the migrants. It begins on the prime — from President Biden on down. Somebody wants to talk out and cease this.
Maureen Sharkey, Brooklyn
Proper on clusters
President Biden is kind of proper in sending cluster munitions to Ukraine (“Rethink bombs, Biden,” July 10).
He ought to have completed it 12 months in the past. The Russians have been utilizing them on populated areas for the reason that begin of the invasion. Ukraine will solely be utilizing them on the battlefield.
The complaints by rights teams ought to be ignored utterly, as they’ve been silent about Russia utilizing them. Properly completed, Biden.
John Truthful, Castlebar, Eire
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