Good Samaritan Radio Lab. Explores Good Samaritan laws around drug overdose

[neversickanymore]

The Good Samaritan

Two people make a decision that would lead to a legal and moral puzzle about how we balance accountability and forgiveness.

www.wnycstudios.org

Thoughts especially on the likelihood of very passive contact by emergency responders and law enforcement resulting in OD? The actions of the DA and the massive load of felony charges filed?

 

[thegreenhand]

I was a lil worried this was gonna be a EMS/cop touches fentanyl and overdoses story , so I’m glad they had the pharmacologist guy set that straight. There is just no evidence you can OD from passive contact

those charges are BS. I think the EMS guy who was affected by this “overdose” just has a thing out for drug users after his experiences. Idk man, seems ruthless to me

 

[neversickanymore]

Radio lab is pretty nut. When the DA starts talking don’t you have enough to worry about back home in NYC you can hear the labs unintimidated yawn.

Police and other first responders endure trauma. They have high levels of substance use and abuse. It could be the phenomenon is really just closet use by front line drug warriors and first responders, confiscating and ODing on fentanyl etc. One for the evidence baggy one for Johnny.