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Witnessing an Overdose Near the Train Station
from Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain · #122
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3 minTim recounts seeing a woman overdosing near a train station curb with cops slow to respond, which leads into a discussion about the difference between snorting and injecting drugs and why the needle is often the line people won't cross.
- 1:07:03Tim witnesses a cop responding slowly to a woman overdosing face-down between a curb and car at the train station.
- 1:07:42The officer administers CPR and another cop arrives with what Tim believes is Narcan, though he's unsure of the drug's name.
- 1:08:08Tim reflects on never trying heroin and credits Nancy Reagan PSAs and movies for instilling fear of addiction.
- 1:08:37He speculates he might have tried heroin if cooler friends had offered it alongside social pressure like an attractive woman.
- 1:08:58Tim notes that snorting culture doesn't get discussed as much as injection culture in relation to heroin addiction.
- 1:09:14People often have reservations about moving from snorting to needles, which he sees as a sobering threshold moment.
- 1:09:28Transitioning to injecting heroin is when some people recognize the behavior has become genuinely strange and serious.