Ohio councilman defends suggesting medics should ignore ODs
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A city councilman in Ohio says he doesn’t regret his suggestion that emergency crews should stop saving people who repeatedly overdose.
Middletown City Council member Dan Picard asked just over a week ago if there is a law requiring the city to respond to overdose calls. He suggested that people who overdose should be forced to do community service to make up for the cost of an emergency run.
If they overdose a third time, he said, no medics should respond.
“If you have a solution, give it to me,” Picard told the Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News (http://bit.ly/2soNkK9 ). “We’re doing all these things, but at some point you have to have some personal responsibility in your life.”