I wouldn't even call this "feral humans"

 Folks, for those who don't have much experience with addicts, let me point out that most drugs out there shut down your higher brain functions.  I've seen the brain scans of meth addicts and pot smokers and cocaine users and alcoholics.  The frontal cortex of your brain doesn't show up on the scans.  It's not getting used.  Higher thought is gone.  Your advanced brain functions such as logic and reason are not in use, as the drugs have shut down that portion of your brain.

I see if I can find those scans online.  Don't know if I can.  What I do know is that the realization I had that when you're dealing with an addict you're not dealing with a functioning human was kind of scary at the time.  I saw the scans year ago, and that coupled with my work in a hospital that had an addiction recovery center has given me a somewhat jaded perspective on addicts.

So when I see this, it's not exactly a shock to me.

A new drug that is making its way across America is literally rotting the skin of users.

Xylazine, which has been approved for veterinary use but not for use in humans, acts as a sedative and is a non-opioid drug that does not respond to Narcan.  The drug, which is rotting the skin of drug users, is currently most prevalent in major Democrat-controlled cities and is also referred to as “tranq dope.”

Rotting the skin of drug users.  And they still keep using it, still keep getting high, even as their flesh rots off their bodies.  Reminds me of a drug called "Krokodil", which damaged the skin and made your flesh look like an alligator's skin.  But it got people high, so they were injecting themselves and turning their skin into leather.

An addict has one goal, and only one goal:  To get high.  Nothing else matters.  Family, friends, job, God, hygiene, food, love, nothing else has any value in their life other than getting high.  And the more they get high, the less those other things matter because the front of the brain has been switched off by the drug.  They're animals.  

They've turned themselves into zombies.  Literally.

This is why you'll never solve the homeless problem in America unless you realize that we don't have a lack of housing, we have an abundance of addicts.  You could put every homeless person in a house today, and by the end of the month the house would be either trashed, burned to the ground, leased to someone else while the addict gets high in the street, taken over by gangs/drug dealers, or destroyed in some other way.  Do you think an addict cares about cleaning?  Do you think an addict cares about fire safety?

Years ago when my mom was running her own medical clinic, one of the Medicaid patients she had kept coming in with the various aliments one finds in a homeless person.  However, this person had housing supplied to him by the state.  He literally had an apartment, paid for by the state, that he could go to and sleep.

He rented it out for drug money.  This ain't a joke, folks.  He would rather get high in the woods than sleep in a warm bedroom.

The people he rented his apartment out to used it for drug dealing and prostitution.  So the state was in effect paying for people to deal drugs and run whores.  Who knows where the whores came from.  There's a massive human sex trafficking circle in America, thanks to the open borders and the drug cartels running girls and women at will.

Addicts gonna addict.  And until you start treating addicts with the harsh love that they require to break their addiction, nothing will change.  Addicts have to hit rock bottom before they start to clean themselves up.  And some of them never hit bottom hard enough to change their behavior.  This is the harsh truth.  You will never get all addicts to be clean.  Some will continue their addiction until they die.

But we shouldn't have to pay for their addiction.