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Naloxone (Narcan) can halt an opioid overdose long enough for EMTs to arrive or to get a victim to the ER. It's also cheap to produce. It saves lives. Why isn't it free and everywhere? Short anwer, it saves lives. Longer answer will take more than three lives. It used to be true that as William S. Burroughs pointed out that it didn't matter if heroin was legal or not, there were the same amount of junkies. A certain percent of the population is just wired like that. The Sacklers' mercenary tactics changed that. When we send grandma home from the hospital with an oxycontin addiction it doesn't end right there. More people are resorting to street drugs. Got knows what's in them after being stepped on every step of the way. And junkies are generally not trained in dosage.
But still we blame the victim. We like to pretend that we are puritans and that it could never happen to us or our children or our friends because we are better than them. Until it does happen and because we didn't have Narcan handy someone is dead.[Guardian]
If I'm here on time that means that there was another bomb threat and I'm going to be upset that I didn't get a Patti Labelle concert again. Incidentally, I do have a prescription (covered!) for Narcan due to another medication that I'm on. I can't imagine what Narcan could do about that or how or why I would abuse it. But I'm happy to have Narcan in my house and be able to (illegally) share it. Who knows what anyone does in the bathroom at parties?
via Guardian
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