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Access to Suboxone or Naloxone in Emergency Situations

Johndoedoe.junk

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Is there anyway to get access to either Suboxone or Narcan (Nalaxone) for use in emergency situations without having to go to the ER or get scripted them by your doc?

I've recently acquired some stronger meds from a friend and there have been a couple times where I feel I have come close to OD. No passing out, blue lips, or anything like that, just respiratory depression severe enough to where I felt like maybe I needed a Narcan dose or maybe a Suboxone strip to pull me out of it. I actually drove to the ER and sat in my car contemplating going in. Thankfully the ER was completely empty and I told the triage nurse i was having a panic attack and asked him to check my vitals. Everything was good, 02 sats @ 99% on room air, BP normal, heart rate normal etc. He basically told me to go home and take my anxiety meds. Rode it out and things were fine but it did kinda freak me out.

I'm not asking how to illegally acquire these, just wondering if there is a way to get these without it going on record. My problem is if I were to go to the ER they would likely call my pain doc and tell him what happens and poof there goes my pain meds which I need to function. My spine is seriously messed up and I definitely need the meds and non-opiate alternatives have been tried and don't work.

So IS there a way to get this stuff without my pain doc knowing or no?
 
some states cant think of them off the top of my head give narcan otc. i believe Massachusetts makes you go through a training process before giving you the drug. and its usually for parents with sons or daughters addicted. so when they see their kid falling out they know what to do. the suboxone no way.
 
Yes, we have a program here in California where you have to watch a video training you on the signs of overdose and then you can get scripted for the emergency overdose kit which includes nalaxone but were in to do that it would show up on the DOJ/DEA database which my PM doctor checks and it would interfere with my regimen. I am normally fine, I think the added stronger meds are what threw things off.
 
It sounds like they don't want you shooting yourself up; they want someone else to do it should the need arise. Is there anyone close to you who can get the training / kit instead?
 
Yes, my wife could do it or worse case my mom. I guess it will show up on the DEA database though. Not a problem in the case of my mom however my wife is a pain patient too so it might look odd to the pain doc.
 
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