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Send patients home with Narcan and train the people they live with to administer it as well. Have every EMT, firefighter, and police officer in the nation carry
by joesmo 11y ago
Send patients home with Narcan and train the people they live with to administer it as well. Have every EMT, firefighter, and police officer in the nation carry and know how to administer Narcan. Have it be part of every single first aid kit sold in this country. Remove the social stigma of drug abuse. Remove penalties for people who help others who are overdosing. You'd think someone would have some common sense in this country but you'd be wrong. It will never get better the way things are going now. It's ridiculous to even have a fucking article like this that doesn't mention the numerous tried and true solutions that exist but are simply not being put into place because the people in power in this country want to see people dying.
The problem isn't that we don't have solutions. Solutions are a plenty. The problem is that no one in America cares. No one in this country gives a shit that people are dying. Most people want it to happen. They support the fucking drug war. They want people to die. Until this fucking shit changes, people will continue to die and idiots will continue to wonder what can we do? So many fucking things, I don't even have time to write them all down. That's the fucking sad part.
- jdietrich 11y agoThe Scottish government started providing naloxone (Narcan) to opiate users on a large scale in 2010. Naloxone and first aid training was offered to users of needle exchange services, prison leavers and other people at risk of opiate overdose. In the first year there were 365 confirmed uses of naloxone, but that is believed to be a significant underestimate of overall use. The evidence is clear - naloxone works. http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0045/00451251.pdf http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0045/00451251.pdf
- merpnderp 11y agoIf you stripped away all the anger and emotion in your comment, it would still read just as inflammatory. Maybe more so. Because it's absolutely true. Even though addicts are sick and need help, that's not how they are viewed. They're viewed as lazy worthless members of society who can go die in a gutter. Yet the most brilliant colleague I ever worked with had be resuscitated twice from heroin overdoses. A hyper productive individual, capable of incredibly feats of software engineering who yet maintained a great work life balance. And while he was sick, society viewed him as a worthless parasite.