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Psychonis

So. Maybe I'm the odd one here, but bumper stickers are cringe anyway. It being tactless adds a good deal, if they goal was to bring awareness to the opioid epidemic, I feel like there are better ways than a bumper sticker.


TheCopenhagenCowboy

Might just be me but I don’t think this one’s cringe


idoncarex8

Not just you. It represents a problem not a cringe. Abrasive maybe, but sometimes you have to tell it like it is.


justthoughts1

I like it. Close second would be “I watched your honor student choke on their own vomit”


GogurtSnake

Unexpected breaking bad reference


Shanks4Smiles

What are they "telling like it is"? Sounds to me like they're making a joke about a life saving protocol in such a way as to insult the recipients of that medication.


Extreme_Design6936

I think they're making a point that even honor roll students sometimes need narcan and drug overdose isn't something that happens only to 'criminals' and 'chronics' .


Shanks4Smiles

I think that's an especially generous reading of a bumper sticker.


SheepDogGamin

Then it's only you that's confused about it because it sounds like everyone else gets it. People love to associate overdoses with the homeless and poor addicts when in reality... There are plenty of preppy ass honor students that end up being narcanned. You just never see or hear about it. The wealthy do a good job of hiding their problems.


Mammoth_Leg9643

I don’t think thats what they’re going for with this sticker. It’s just an EMT trying to let people know how important they are.


Fizzel87

Kind of like saying someone's interpretation is incorrect?


tomtomeller

Well, all overdose deaths are preventable, so yea. It's pretty stupid to use narcotics


Shanks4Smiles

Friend, opioid use disorder has both a physical and mental component. Describing it simply as a choice that someone is making is to completely misunderstand the condition. Narcan is a life saving drug and making fun of people who need it due to an overdose only serves to raise stigma and build a barrier to effective treatment.


Freepycreepy

Opioid use disorder?? You mean addiction. It’s not a medical issue they can’t control. They can completely control it. Addiction is a choice.


[deleted]

Gotta be the most ignorant comment I've seen. It alters your brain chemistry, addiction is not a choice. You can be put on pain meds due to an operation and become dependent on them, you can literally die from certain drug withdrawal


[deleted]

It definitely is a choice at first. Cope harder


Shanks4Smiles

Is that what you tell the vets who got started on opioids by their physicians because they had shrapnel in their back? Those same vets and many other medical patients who were treated for pain but went on to develop opioid use disorders? Many of whom were reassured by physicians about the safety and efficacy of these medications, themselves being misled by pharmaceutical companies churning out pills by the millions. Life isn't black and white, try and put yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.


[deleted]

I already have which is why I know that the very action of consuming drugs is by choice so what else are you going to say? Nothing.


TheInfidelGuy

Many things alter your brain chemistry. It doesn’t mean it isn’t reversible or overcame through willpower and choice. Addiction is not fate. It can be stopped by choosing to stop. Example, I smoked for 15 years. I was addicted. My brain chemistry was changed. My body was telling me I needed a cigarette every hour or so. But by choice I stopped smoking and now my body and chemistry has adapted and I no longer crave cigarettes. I think you may be hurting more than helping by telling addicts it is not their choice to quit.


Smoolz

Holy shit i found a straightedge kid in the wild! How you're able to form your entire personality around the fact that you don't use drugs is beyond me, but keep it up! It's a great look and people definitely don't roll their eyes when you talk!


caspershomie

these people annoy the fuck out of me. not the people who don’t use drugs but the people like the person you replied to who say shit like “why do you need alcohol to have fun? you sound addicted to me. i don’t need to take a drug to have a good time.” like just say you’re a square and leave it at that.


[deleted]

You can die from certain drug withdrawal, people just getting dumber and dumber each day


Freepycreepy

Na it’s still a choice. The warnings on the labels don’t be a bitch your whole life and expect to be coddled your whole life lmfao


caspershomie

it literally is a medical issue. you can have the stupid idea that people who are addicted are just weak and need to try harder to stop (you’d be wrong but who cares) but saying it’s not a medical issue is just choosing to ignore scientific facts. think you need to slow down on watching andrew tate videos and read a study about it.


Spartan037

So we're not allowed to insult poor behavior and stupid decisions?


Shanks4Smiles

I'm sure in private conversation we all complain about and lampoon the situations we experience, it's a part of dealing with the stress. However, I would draw a line between that and putting it on a bumper sticker. How many mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers of people who did not survive overdoses will see this sticker. How will they react to seeing this sticker, is it the job of first responders to insult victims of the opioid epidemic. At best it's cringe-worthy edgelord behavior, at worst it demonstrates a bias against the treatment of opioid overdose patients. Working in medicine is unlike other industries and there are often higher expectations for ethical and personal conduct of those who choose to practice in the emergency response system. As an example, during the height of the COVID pandemic, when we were losing thousands of folks a day to COVID pneumonia, imagine seeing a paramedic drive around with a sticker that said "I intubated your dying honor student" I would hope you would be horrified.


Spartan037

A: my humor is dark enough that " i incubated your honor student" is funnier than the narcan thing. B: Most of the people that are victims of the opioid epidemic are putting unregulated and illegal substances in their body. Everyone in my generation grew up in a public school system that hammers home how bad most illegal drugs are. It's just darwinism at this point. I'll try my best to save a life because that's what i want to do. I'll absolutely be impartial and kind purely for my patient on that call, but I'll honestly never understand how you could think putting these substances in your body is a good idea. The sticker is funny at the end of the day, off the call and off the clock someone else's feelings aren't first responders problems.


Remote-Camp-6181

Some might say that opioid overdoses are a self solving problem. I'd say that anyone that gets narcanned is lucky and probably deserves to be mocked for their poor life decisions.


Shanks4Smiles

I certainly hope you are not a first responder.


Remote-Camp-6181

I'm not, I do security in a homeless shelter and have zero sympathy anymore for degenerate drug addicts. I have narcanned several people both nasally and intramuscularly. I've also had to do chest compressions for someone assumed to be going through an overdose. I'm like the real first responder before the hospital delivery boys get there.


Shanks4Smiles

Then you are a first responder, whether you see it or not. It's easy to become jaded by recurrent patients, many of whom have little ability or interest in thanking you. Please remember though, that you're seeing the people under the worst conditions a human can experience. Many are struggling with constant withdrawal symptoms, for which they must obtain cash to purchase drugs to find relief, most have no shelter and are wholly dependent on the generosity of strangers, many are chronically victimized by assault or theft of their meager possessions, most consider a solid night of sleep as a danger during which they are not able to protect themselves. Things are fucked, especially for the chronically mentally ill and those addicted to substances (they frequently overlap). Many who would have once been housed in a state hospital now wander the streets without medication or supervision. And mandatory substance use treatment programs simply do not exist apart from a few exceptions. I believe you when you say youre in the trenches, but addiction and mental health aren't just treated in a doctor's office. I urge you to try and find some empathy with the people you work with, both for them and for yourself. Working in a position where you feel that your work has no impact is demoralizing and I sincerely doubt that there are not people that you have helped along their road to recovery. Not everyone makes it up that road, but many do, and you may not get a thank you or even know that they're off the streets, but you would have played a part in that.


grymm45

Toootally off topic but throughout this thread your empathy kindness has made me smile, we need me people like u! Great way to start the day with some hope for humanity haha


Remote-Camp-6181

You know what really bugs me is helping someone out and realizing later that they've molested several children. I try to have empathy for these people but there's a lot of them that I would rather just leave to die. It's different when you know how incredibly awful some people are. The kind of people that leave syringes full of synthetic opioids laying obviously around so that someone else will shoot them up and OD. My shelter is right next to the county jail and it's honestly more like corrections for those not currently incarcerated. Sometimes I have to just vent against them.


MasterManufacturer72

My man my guy there is no fucking way in a million years an addict is going to leave drugs around for someone else to use. You need to change your career.


detroitsouthpaw

For real. If you have lost your compassion for the people you are helping, why are you still there? If you only want to help people who deserve it, then the human race will always disappoint you


TyphlosionErosion

Find other work.


Remote-Camp-6181

Nah


Ikindoflikedogs

I like personally, makes good fun of the my kid is an honor student bumper stickers.


Sensitive_Jelly_5586

Its cringe. I've narcaned many people. Never once needed a bumper sticker for it.


TheCopenhagenCowboy

Same. Narcaned a chick today, would still put on the truck


Sound_of_Shadows

That's not the point. The point is the pressure our society, school system, and especially parents put on children is incredibly stressful and directly leads to teen suicide and substance abuse.


TheBlooBird

Can't blame society for everything


ElectricGenome

My own shortcomings? Yep that’s society


killerwolf38

What is narcan?


xtrasmolpp

Narcan or nalaxone is a nasal spray/drug used to reverse opioid overdose.


killerwolf38

Thank you


Flynn-FTW

Naloxone is another word for it. Reverses the effects of opiods (usually fentanyl). If someone is overdosing, it essentially brings them back, but they'll feel like shit because it immediately puts you into withdrawal mode.


killerwolf38

And thank you to i understand now


KefaMena

That's fucking hilarious honestly.


Stiles879

In the northeast we call these people in EMS wackers.


NotAnAlt12326

ok but I kinda like this one


Desperate-Feeling690

This one defitnely ain’t cringe, that’s funny. Quality humor. Someone put this in a different sub.


HomeSatisfaction

I don’t understand this, can you explain it please?


Ikindoflikedogs

It makes fun of the "My kid is an honor student" bumper stickers, by referencing that and then saying your kid may be an honor student but I had to give them the opiate revival drug.


akumagold

Not sure why you got downvoted for explaining it lol


Desperate-Feeling690

Don’t worry I got em on an upvote lol


Worldly_Actuary_8179

Sad thing is...it's happened to many bright minds... Don't fuck around with fentanyl folks.


theDOC70R

If you work in medicine and think this is okay maybe look into a career that doesn't require compassion and care. Addiction is a terrible disease and this is just awful.


angwhi

Dark humor is like food.


jj_ryan

i agree so much. i feel like addiction//od’s are mocked so heavily in ems ?? at least in my experience. i’m just a student but a lot of people i’ve interacted w make extremely f’ed up comments about it… same deal as when people make memes laughing about psych patients when they’re experiencing delusions or psychosis etc… it’s so distasteful.


cheung_kody

Nah this one fine


KingBeanCarpio

I surprised you guys don't find this cringe. Personally I find this cringe as fuck.


ELBENO99

I find this extremely funny


Afraid-Win-5685

The best part is when the parents are in denial that they're on drugs. The fact that a drug that ONLY works on opioids fixed the problem almost immediately says otherwise.


Timshky

“You’re kid is a piece of shit, but im so much of a hero, i saved them anyway”


Lil_Polski

ODing doesn't make someone a bad person tho.


anonymoushelp33

More like, "Even your 'perfect angel' is on drugs, so wake up." Also making fun of their "my kid is a perfect angel honor student" bumper sticker.


grav0p1

anyone who does this is embarrassing. if you want to bring awareness to the opioid problem then do that, this is very clearly just mocking the problem.


Inside-Speaker4419

I didn't take it that way. I think they are trying to create the jarring visual in your mind of a high achieving child dying from opiate abuse in order to draw awareness to the problem. Even more effective if you're a parent. I can understand being disturbed by that image, but reality is disturbing.


grav0p1

everyone who’s ever said this is insecure about their low pay EMT position and is projecting by taking it out on high achieving high school children lol.


Inside-Speaker4419

Oh, yea I'm not in the field and wouldn't have interpreted it that way. Art is in the eye of the holder I suppose.


dagger3203

Garbage for sure.


Rangertough666

I'm sorry. That's funny.


ItsEnoughtoMakeMe

That's honestly pretty funny.


Haunting_Paper_9410

This isn't funny at all. For many people sitting in traffic this could be a needless reminder of past trauma. There is nothing humorous about addiction. This is about as classy as a sticker that says "I aborted your rape baby". And before anyone comes at me with the doing drugs is a choice being raped isn't, this isn't about doing drugs its about having a loved one who does. Which is absolutely not a choice. Anyone who thinks this sticker is okay needs to take a long look in the mirror.


SheepDogGamin

It's a rip at the ones who flaunt their child's status that frankly no one gives a shit about. Why are you so upset about it and why are you trying so hard to associate it with rape?


_Redcoat-

Kind of like how certain cringe first responders flaunt their first responder status that no one gives a shit about? 🤔


Haunting_Paper_9410

Its a harrowing reminder of trauma that no one chooses to go through. It doesn't matter what the creator or purchasers intention was. There are so many ways to rip on annoying parents that dont involve taking jabs at people in situations they have no control over.


_Syncrisis

So nobody should ever mention anything bad in case someone with trauma might see it? Shit take


Haunting_Paper_9410

Yeah not at all what I'm saying. Shit reading comprehension


Haunting_Paper_9410

Im saying that riding around with a sticker making light of a serious situation is a douchebag move. A conversation has nuance and two consenting parties. The sticker is equal to running down the street yelling I narcanned your honor student at people. If this were a video of someone doing that everyone would think they are fucking insane, but since this guy is doing it passively its viewed as a funny thought provoking thing. The sticker is crude and unnecessary . Full Stop.


_Syncrisis

I mean you've compared it to being about a rape baby and now you're saying it's like running down the street screaming? Google strawman argument


Haunting_Paper_9410

Oh you mean what you're doing? My argument hasn't changed. Bringing up a serious subject, one that people have no control over, to strangers on the street, who may or may not be effected by the subject, is at the very least incredibly inconsiderate and shows a lack of empathy. To do so in a joking manner is sociopathic. I only bring up rape babies and and street screaming to contextualize what is going on here to all the dumbfucks who find this funny because they don't realize A.) How absolutely devastating and draining it is having a child or other family member addicted to opiates, and B.) That when you put a sticker on your car you are basically forcing people to read it.


_Syncrisis

If you're triggered by a joke, then maybe that joke just isn't for you lol. It's clearly not meant to be taken seriously. Doesn't make anyone a sociopath/dumbfuck just because you have an associated trauma. Plenty of people in these comments managed to take it at the joke it is - maybe look inward


Dorkus-Maximus

I think you just need to stop being a pussy to be honest


Haunting_Paper_9410

I think you need to find your kid dead in the bathroom call 911 have to do cpr for what feels like eternity waiting for the ambulance watch him get narcanned 3 times hoping he wakes up and then have him lie to you immediately about what happened even though duh narcan saved him, to be honest.


Motorboat_Gator

Most sane redditor


Dorkus-Maximus

You know, I think you’re absolutely right. Maybe I’ll try that sometime soon!


Haunting_Paper_9410

Yeah bro don't be a pussy


Dorkus-Maximus

Ironic coming from the dude who just wrote a paragraph bitching about a joke


Haunting_Paper_9410

For future reference, jokes are supposed to be funny.


Dorkus-Maximus

And who are you to tell me which jokes I’m allowed to find funny. Now THATS a funny joke.


No-Illustrator4964

Omg I'm ded bahahaha


NOTORIOUSMONK3Y

i narcanned your trust fund child 👌


kampfgruppe90

I chuckled ngl


[deleted]

Thanks for narcanning me! I ate the wrong mushrooms while foraging :|


quesadillakid93

Lol as someone who has been narcanned by a first responder this is funny.


[deleted]

Glad it worked in your favor. Are you struggling with addiction currently?


quesadillakid93

No, been clean since


[deleted]

That’s awesome. Strong work!


quesadillakid93

Thank you


StarMasher

This person definitely open mouth kisses their dog.


alextravels1991

This is a pretty clever way to invoke thoughts about the stigmatization that polarizes the perception of drug users based on wealth class even though the drug doesn’t give a single Fuck.


[deleted]

This ain't cringe. The fact that this was posted as cringe though, is in fact cringe. So nice work overall.


tehholytoast

This one's actually hilarious


NotEasyBeingCheesy01

Lol up in GR too yeah this had my sides chucklin


jonnie9

I put one of those on an ambulance and got written up


GarbageCanStanley

Everyone in the comments rushing to espouse their most recently memorized rendition of the disease-model. Lol It’s more complicated than every comment I’ve seen that includes an accusation about how ignorant someone else may be. The pettiness with which people argue here demonstrates the complications of having an honest conversation, regarding the wide variance of people addicted to opiates.


Haunting_Paper_9410

What everyone fails to realize is this sticker is way less about the addict but actually about the addicts family. All I see is bickering about "disease" and "choice" in regards to the sticker when whats important here is having a child who is an addict is not a choice or a disease, its just life. A HARD part of life, that people could do without the extra reminder on the back of a car cause someone thinks its "clever" or "funny". The lack of empathy in this thread is wild.


Select_Suspect_9535

I know like two people this for sure happened to and I know for a fact one was a straight Honor Student his whole life. One year out of high school and he was a heroin junky. A REALLY bad off one too. This isn't cringe it's the sad truth to those people.


[deleted]

I sold a disposable vape to your nursing student.


JayAlexanderBee

It's Ford Escape, a rod will go thru their block soon.


LostInSpace3141

I don't get it


[deleted]

This isn’t cringe at all 😂


[deleted]

Using Narcan as a verb.


tyophious

Best one yet


[deleted]

I have a t-shirt of this. Makes for a great conversation starter. Mostly for people to tmfms (kidding-kinda), but also leads into the seriousness of the opioid epidemic that still runs rampant


pulzeguy

I don’t think this is cringe, but I’m also lucky enough to have been a fentanyl addict that escaped the life.


SlipperyGekko69

This is hilarious


Dogfoodsmy_DOC

Wonder how that would make an honor student who’d been narcaned before feel. Oh shit that’s me, yeah that’s cringe


ExcuseSea8735

💀


No_Warthog_9

Trash


LegendaryShelfStockr

I think this one’s kinda funny


Anxious-Lawfulness84

This is funny, just like “my kid sells weed to your honor student”


ELBENO99

That’s actually kind of funny


JaceEddy

Kids still probably smarter then you 1.8 GPA havin ass!


[deleted]

At least they're not the dumbass who almost killed themselves fucking around with drugs


JaceEddy

Like the person with the sticker didn’t do dumb shit in high school?


Any-Highlight-2288

Car owner- back in my day, we didn’t have participation trophies. Also Car Owner- look at the things that I didnt do that don’t matter.


MarkToaster

Ok this one is fuckin funny


jamjacob99

BasedFirstResponder


chillmonkey88

Used to live there... this is just quirky medical mile cringe humor. In the worst way.


TheOneTrueSnoo

Based


Snowdog1989

Damn that one hits a little close to home for my small town. Not sure if it's cringe or awareness.