Why would you want junkies alive? It’s a serious question. You can’t answer “because all life matters,” because they are literally junkies.
This guy must be Jewish. “Sager” is a Jew name.
Amongst the wasteland of one of America’s most drug-addled neighborhoods, one man has made it his mission to save addicts dying from overdoses.
Ryan Sager, 27, has been dubbed the closest thing to a real-life superhero and the “Narcan Batman” by friends for his work, monitoring the streets of Kensington in his spare time for the last three years.
He spends hours driving through the area, which has become the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast, full of rampant and open drug use, dealing and homelessness.
Sager doesn’t drive a Batmobile or wear a cape. Instead, he cruises the streets largely undetected in a 1997 blue Subaru Forester.
He should be wearing Joker makeup.
These are villainous acts.
His self-appointed mission is to find anyone who has overdosed, swoop in and save them by administering a Narcan inhaler which rapidly reverses the effects of opioids.
“When you see someone [and] their chest isn’t rising, that’s an indicator for me. I’ll stop, I’ll yell at them,” Sager says.
“If they don’t respond, I’ll get out and yell at them again.
“If they still don’t respond I’ll approach them and if I can see their chest is definitely not rising, that’s when I’m going to Narcan them.
“That person can be up and responsive before an ambulance arrives so those precious minutes of not breathing are really reduced and that can make all the difference.”
During his time on patrol Sager says he’s saved at least four lives by reversing overdoses. Albeit, a drop in the bucket of the 1,413 unintentional overdose deaths the Philadelphia Department of Public Health recorded in 2022.
The Post joined him on a crisp, sunny Sunday morning earlier in November. Several hundred drug-addicts in various states of disarray were visible on the suburb’s notorious Kensington Avenue and nearby “Needle Park”.
It makes no sense.
No one wants these people alive.
All they do is feed on other people.
Keeping them alive is harming society.
They are literally not trying to keep themselves alive.