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Who should have access to overdose medication?

What is your opinion?

  • By all means, make the drug available to those close to potential abusers.

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  • Don't make the drug available to non-medical personnel. Let the addicts suffer their chosen fate.

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NightSwimmer

Senator
There is a debate taking place as to whether Narcan should be made more widely available in order to reduce the risk of death from Heroin overdose.



Heroin overdose antidote: Who gets to carry it?

By KATIE ZEZIMA
Associated Press


CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates say are the most critical group - people who abuse drugs, and their friends and families.

Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse.

At least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow naloxone - commonly known by the brand name Narcan - to be distributed to the public, said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health, a national nonprofit that focuses on preventive health care. And at least 10 of those states allow for third parties, such as a family member or friend of an intravenous drug user, to be prescribed it.
 

Corruptbuddha

Governor
There is a debate taking place as to whether Narcan should be made more widely available in order to reduce the risk of death from Heroin overdose.



Heroin overdose antidote: Who gets to carry it?

By KATIE ZEZIMA
Associated Press


CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates say are the most critical group - people who abuse drugs, and their friends and families.

Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse.

At least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow naloxone - commonly known by the brand name Narcan - to be distributed to the public, said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health, a national nonprofit that focuses on preventive health care. And at least 10 of those states allow for third parties, such as a family member or friend of an intravenous drug user, to be prescribed it.

Anyone who can afford it.

Of course, this does beg the question...what kind of life are you saving?
 
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