Posted on 12/14/2017 9:35:18 AM PST by Morgana
Lincoln County, WV - A relatively small county in our region is using a new approach to handle drug overdoses. Some are considering it controversial, but county officials stand behind giving out free NARCAN kits for the public.
Lincoln County Day Report Officer, J.L. Frye said Wednesday, "You cannot rehabilitate someone who is dead."
The Lincoln County Health Department made the announcement via Facebook post, Tuesday that they won a grant- $20,000 worth of NARCAN will be given to those who want it. Those who do want a kit will need to attend a required training course to receive one.
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Enabling a problem is a not a solution.
And letting them die is?
Free?!?
SNORT.
How much do these kits cost? And where did the grant money come from?
Actually, that is a solution.
I’m not saying I like it or you should like it. But if all the addicts died, there wouldn’t be a big opioid crisis, right?
But if we save every addict when they overdose, that doesn’t solve the opioid crisis, does it? It prolongs the problem.
I’m simply arguing word definition. The NARCAN idea enables people who overdose to live and overdose again on another day. It is, therefore, not a solution to the opioid crisis.
I remember when Seattle introduced needle exchanges in the 1990s.
One of the claims was that it would help draw addicts into treatment.
We had a lot fewer heroin addicts back then, BTW.
[[your thoughts?]]
- now i can take up heroin in order to get free narcan- woohoo
Why not just distribute free heroin and insulin syringes? Why prolong the inevitable?
Actually not a bad idea. Ambulance services are sometimes so tied up responding to drug overdoses that there is a wait time for “real” problems.
Due to the very short half life of Narcan, using it in a non medically monitored manner will probably end up killing some addicts and bring the lawyers running.
The link below gives and shows the concern of trained EMTs re giving Narcan re possible risks and side effects.
The danger of those risks and side effects can go up very high if a non medically trained person gives Narcan.
http://roguemedic.com/2012/12/to-narcan-or-not-narcan/
Thanks for posting this.
Another example of FDA enabling a shady company in fleecing the public with a $4500 cost per injection.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/575-life-saving-drug-jump-4500-blame-perverse-system/
A longer duration of action opiate antagonist is needed. Desperately.
Lincoln County Day Report Officer, J.L. Frye said Wednesday, “You cannot rehabilitate someone who is dead.”
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What an idiot. Junkie dies = problem solved. So why spend good money on a temporary fix? (Rehab)
Sign of the times.
If you believe they create their addictions by themselves out of thin air, then yes. But humans are complicated organisms. Part of the solution is the realization that their isn't a solution.
Hardly free. Our tax dollars paid to keep habitual druggies alive.
The cops should stake out those who pick up those “free” kits. That’d go a long way to decrease the amount of illegals drugs within the county.
But you can spend a fortune saving the same person once or twice a week.
Supply & demand?
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