“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?
It sounds like if you survive an OD, just take this medicine to increase your chance of death by 38%. Ah, the wonders of science!
I imagine, an user overdoses. Later, he receives medical attention. Once he receives the drug, his chance of dying is a fraction of what it was the second before receiving it.
Overdosing means that you took enough to have a blood level that is considered dangerous.
It is a drug therapy that stops continued use.
Yep - I think it’s like using Methadone for heroin addicts - it supposedly eases the cravings, but can be fatal itself - I knew two folks, personally, who died of Methadone ODs...it’s just that using it supposedly keeps one more aware....
Just another way to make money off another drug that ain’t a solution.