Breitbart:
Nevada health officials are allowing the overdose reversal drug Narcan to be sold in vending machines in the Las Vegas area.
Officials are allowing residents registered with the state’s syringe exchange program to use a card to access the vending machines dispensing Narcan, a drug which is used to reverse and sometimes prevent opioid overdose, WJXT reported.
The drug has been used widely to combat the opioid crisis in America and was recently used to revive a Vermont state trooper who collapsed after falling ill from suspected heroin exposure. more here
Well… It’s not a narcotic
Good luck buying it when you’re already overdosing.
Reportedly, the Narcan vending machines will be conveniently located right next to the ones dispensing opioids.
Maybe we can get the government to remove speed limit sign’s to discourage speeding.🤔
Wonder if you can get one of those cards off of a high-flying druggie, then use it to vend the machine empty?
Think of the havoc of an empty machine on someone ODing. Or the expense to the city/state to continually restock said machine.
MJA, I can’t thank you enough for posting this article. The Clark County Health District is trying to place needle dispensing machines in our community (we are not part of Clark), saying they will help keep drug addicts safe from HIV and hepatitis if they have access to clean needles. After reading this article, it’s obvious where this is going. They call it protection, I call it enabling. Nevada, what has happened to you?
THIS REMINDS ME..WHERE’S BAD BRAD?? DOESN’T HE LIVE NEAR THE MUSTANG RANCH?? SOMEBODY TOLD ME IT’S NEAR RENO??
@Benito – BFH reported yesterday that he’s in self imposed exile.
Just let them OD and die. Seriously. Less than zero shits given for some degenerate junkie who kills himself with drugs. Society is better off without these scumbags stealing oxygen.
The downside is that because it’s Nevada, the odds of a packet actually containing Narcan are 1,100 to 1
The house always wins….
…a word of warning to any Good Samaritans out there who may want to help a friend, family member, or stranger near a Narcan vending machine out with this…
…I was a medic for a number of years, and I had to narc a patient more than once, or attend while someone else did. It wasn’t as common in my day, but it was there. My information is a bit dated because we only had the injectable form back in the day and not the new “nasal” stuff, but there is ONE sequale to this that I am SURE did NOT change.
Narcan ends the high.
Immediately.
The person you applied the Narcan to sometimes went to great lengths to GET that high. They may have done some questionable things to get it. I would refer you to the well-known poem “King Heroin” for just how immoral they can be. https://sermons.faithlife.com/sermons/12874-king-heroin
The person you applied the Narcan to is probably NOT otherwise injured or disabled, unless they had a wreck due to when they took it, or they’ve been “down” awhile. This means they can be in otherwise generally healthy state, the more so if they haven’t been doing it long, but you can’t count on them being otherwise weakened.
And they are NOT happy that YOU ended their “high”.
They were off drifting in Stoner Heaven, and got rudely and immediately pulled back to Reality Hell. And YOU are the first thing they see.
I’ve had them come up off the floor cursing, punching, going for weapons, and on one memorable occasion head-butting a proby that didn’t heed the warnings and also didn’t have the reflexes to pull back fast enough. This isn’t a heart attack patient who is grateful for your help, this is someone who may not even be particularly interested in living, and will let you know about it loudly and violently.
Since they couldn’t kill THEMSELVES, maybe YOU’LL do. It was sometimes nice to have a LEO present, but sometimes we had to sit on the guy’s hands ourselves till restraint was possible.
You are allowed to restrain them in such circumstances once things go South, but PRIOR restraint was not permitted in most cases because Narcan was in the protocols as a “downer” drug when you didn’t know WHY someone was down, and it was just an easy thing to do to eliminate that possibility. Narcan is pretty neat in that if there is no opiod, it does nothing, but if there IS, it counteracts it, so it is considered generally safe in this application. And not EVERY opioid overdose was a scumbag druggie, as prescription medicines could contain them, and older people and challenged people could easily overdose, and it was effective for them, too.
Also, with the injectable form, they tended to throw up. Dealing with aspiration issues with these patients was problematic even if they WEREN’T combative, as they could also be “mixing their pleasures” and be on other drugs and/or alcohol too, which do NOT respond to Narcan. This can leave you with a still-unconscious, but now vomiting, person who is gonna die like John Belushi very quickly right in FRONT of you, because of YOUR actions, if you don’t know how to intervene to prevent it; and they may have damaged lungs from it even if you DO get to it in time to save their life.
…so, intervene at your own risk. If you are a loved one of a heroin addict and you want to preserve them as long as possible, I would recommend CPR lessons.
And maybe some self-defense ones.
Also, stay back.
I have never seen a heroin addict recover without the grace of God. I have no hope to give anyone from what I saw on the street level. They usually kept it up until they either died from the drug or died from activity to GET the drug, or went to prison because they killed someone ELSE to get the drug and end up dying THERE.
I do know of a church that HAS had success with this, however, but ONLY through the grace of the Lord. Narcan may let them live a bit longer, loved ones…but only the Bible can FREE them.
Do what you can to make THAT their drug of choice…
Would somebody please give me one good reason prescription opioids are even legal? Many heroin addicts began with a prescription for OxyContin and sought out heroin (another opioid that satisfies the addiction) when they can’t find any Oxy.
Perdue Pharma needs to have their balls sued off in a class action suit larger than anything ever seen before.
Any politicians enabling the decimating of our country by addiction (for their own profit) need to pay dearly.
I was on a flight recently, and a guy OD’d in the bathroom.
This is not normal.
Hey, you can’t gamble in Nevada if you’re dead; you can only vote if you’re dead – Democrat ticket, all the way.
I wonder how often these machines will have to be replaced due to vandalism/theft.
given the high cost of an individual dose of Narcan, and how that is rising, it won’t be long before the cartels or such begin making knockoff Narcan. Just like the government- first create the problem, then create the solution.