REMARKS
Personal experiences and observations on addiction
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Council Member Narcisse shares personal experiences and observations from her time as a nurse, providing insight into the nature of addiction and its impact on individuals and healthcare workers.
- Describes how addiction can change a person's behavior dramatically
- Shares experiences of working in emergency rooms and dealing with patients seeking drugs
- Emphasizes that addiction is a disease and that individuals under the influence of drugs may not represent their true selves
- Highlights the transformation in patients' demeanor after receiving appropriate medication or treatment
Mercedes Narcisse
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I can tell you that listening from folks that I know about their family members that are affected, not even now, even back then.
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People that's great people, beautiful people, when they're under the drug controls, they're a different person.
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They become obese.
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That's not the person.
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It's an addiction and it's a problem.
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I have worked in the emergency room where people will take the papers, throw them on my face, throw other things on my face, when I'm not giving them what they come for.
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Because we have a process.
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And you give them a few minutes when they get their medication, or back then methadone, and you would see it's a beautiful person.
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So that's all I have to say to that, my own life experience.