you guys are talkin about narcan and how it should be made more available
well i agree with you but narcan is useless unless someone knows you have it and if they do know you have it, they still got to klnow where you keep it and how to use it
its not like your gonna tell you parents "oh hey if you ever find me in my room and i look like im dead, just take this right here out of my top drawer and stab it in my chest and inject me, or take this spray and put it up my nose" and i hopeif you do tell the, your parents just dont sit back and say "ok thanks for the headsup"
you know what im saying?
But do you know how many people actually
do live with people that know that they use, or who fall out around friends that they use with? Sure, those with hidden addictions would have a hard time one day coming clean and explaining to their parents about the narcan, but there are a lot of addicts who have parents that know that they use. The nasal administration is simple, so anybody can do that.
Just about everybody that I know that has overdosed, had a family that knew that the person was a heroin addict. Remember how we were just saying how although you can OD via any ROA, but IV is most common? Well since it's a lot harder to hide an IV heroin addiction, most parents of an IV user know what's up. Sure there are people that OD leaving their family in complete shock because they had no idea about their use, but more often than not, the family has known of the use, and has been dreading the day that the kid may die from an OD.
The overdose prevention seminar that I was supposed to go to was one of the only ones that I have heard of, so think about all the people that couldn't make it to that one, and therefore couldn't get any narcan kits. Now why shouldn't these people be able to get it from their local pharmacy (I know you aren't saying they shouldn't be able to, I'm just going into more detail about it not being available enough)?
The documentary that I saw about heroin in Boston had a mom that kept one of the narcan nasal kits already assembled in a kitchen cabinet, along with another one that was still in its wrapping. She found her son already turning blue, and was able to dose him really quickly, and said that she doubts he would have made it enough time for an ambulance to come and hit him with the narcan, and if he did make it, he would have some brain damage.
If parents are educated more about this in schools meetings, then it wouldn't be as big of an issue. Instead, school districts waste the money on D.A.R.E. If a school is known to have an opiate problem, then educating the parents and giving them all narcan would help a lot. Sure most parents will be thinking "not my kid," but if they hand out a kit to everyone, instead of awkwardly saying that anyone that thinks their kid may be using should come up and get one, then at least they will have it and put it in their underwear draw at home or something.
if your by yourself and you realze you over did it, its already too late and its not like your gonna out yourself to ypur family and even tell your little 12yer old sister...yes it saves lives but only if people know you have it and know where to find it and how to use it
Let's say you sniff a few bags, and are impatient and sniff a few more, and then the first few bags hit you like a ton of bricks, so you know the other bags you just sniffed might put you out. You could just grab the narcan spray, and dose yourself with it. Yes it is going to suck when it puts you in withdrawals, but I know some people that would much rather do that than call an ambulance or tell their family. This guy I know accidentally took his 30mg oxy IR pills thinking they were his 5mg oxy IR pills, so ended up having taken like 800mgs of oxy instead of the 140 he planned on taking. Well since he Dr shops he didn't want to call an ambulance, and he decided to ride it out, knowing damn well that he might not wake up. He lived somehow since he has a tolerance of almost 400mgs of oxy a day, but he had taken like double that. What I'm saying is, people like that can benefit from having that on hand too, since they are too stubborn to call an ambulance.
I think that there is actually a way smaller percentage of people that
wouldn't benefit from having a narcan kit at home, as opposed to the other way around. If someones parents find them turned blue, and they see the kid has fresh track marks, a drop of blood on his arm, a syringe still in his arm, powder on the table, foil with tar, a rolled up bill, or anything else like that visible because they fell out and the parents walked in since they didn't answer, then even if the people never knew their kid was on dope, well they are finding out right then and there, and are way better off if they have that only narcan kit lying around from the school seminar that they really didn't want to take home, but they had been given it anyway so decided to just take it and toss it in the drawer.
