[ConservativeMind]

Getting help with opioids after a near death encounter pays off.

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[PLMerite]

“Buprenorphine after nonfatal opioid overdose found to result in reduced risk of overdose death”

First thought: If they already didn’t die from the overdose, how does it reduce the risk of overdose death? It’s like giving cpr to someone who didn’t drown and claiming you saved their life.

The whole article reads weird, but maybe because I’m tired and it’s late.

This is an ongoing treatment, I presume. Does it make users not want to do opioids any more, or does it convey some resistance to dying from using?

[Celtic Conservative]

My experience has been that if an addict is dead set on killing themselves with drugs not much can stop them.

CC

[neverevergiveup]

Methadone and buprenorphine are generally just ways to prevent people from using opioid drugs off the street. They're distributed by clinics that monitor use, and often you have to go every day to the clinic to get a dose - thus preventing overdose (if you've done well on the program, they will give you more doses with less clinic visits).

The problem is that they are just a replacement for other opioids, and it's not easy to be off of them either.