Mr. Simpson, thank you for your reporting & your empathy. I’d ask you, though, to drop the adjective “homeless” from the descriptions. These are men or people first, unhoused second. All of us would assume that someone using drugs in the tunnel or in a doorway would be unhoused. But we don’t know that without asking and those are pejorative words to many of us. They are apparently unfortunate humans with probable substance use disorders and with untold stories, but I can’t verify any of that without asking them. And thank goodness the first man had Narcan with him.
But still, thank you for a very personal story of two people.
George Chappell
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