ignorant sheriff he will not have a job soon enough or will cave to pressure…but his response is obvious not just based on personal safety
of course not… he said “we’ve had enough”, meaning he’s fed up with dealing with addict and rather let them die… sick that he has the power to make that call
I don’t understand the legalities here. The drug in question is a prescription drug. I would think that only medical people or the prescribed recipient can legally even hold the drug. So what does that have to do with non-medical police personnel? Aside from that, how about the potential lawsuit if some mistake was made – too much of the drug, too little or to the wrong person, especially seeing as the one administering the drug is not properly medically trained.
What hes saying is you make a decision to shoot up your on your own why should the government have to spend thousands of dollars in narcan to revive you when you made the choice to use. if attics know their on their own and nobodys coming to help maybe they’ll think twice and if they dont well its their choice
georgeg – this drug is a very unusual exception. I am not an expert, but I learned this from all of the advertisements I see on the NYC subway, and from School and Camp trade shows. It seems that it is NOT a typical restricted prescription drug. They are willing to give it away for free to anyone that wants to carry it around, seemingly even without any training at all. (My kids were given them as free samples to camp counselors.) The posters include stories about moron drug addicts that managed to (temporarily) save the lives of other moron drug addicts when they found them unconscious from an overdose.
Possible explanations may be that the drug is packaged in an easy-to-use fool-proof single-use spray that avoids many of the problems you suggested. It might even be harmless to normal humans. OTOH, there are the potential benefits of saving lives that would 100% be lost without it.
That’s all I know. I don’t know how someone is supposed to recognize when this drug is appropriate (meaning if you didn’t already know the patient is an addict.) I don’t know what types of overdoses it is effective for. From the aforementioned subway ads, I thing Opioids, but I don’t even know what those are.
I agree with the other posters in that I suspect the real reason is the Sheriff would rather that the addicts die,
Seems like all these right wing nutcases have adopted “cowboy hats” as their uniform (he doesn’t look yeshivish and the hat is not black)…remember ” Sheriff Joe” out in Arizona (who is facing federal charges for ignoring a court order) and Sheriff Dave from Milwaukee (who had to withdraw from consideration as a Homeland Security nominee for having plagiarized some of his aprticles etc). Sadly, it will probably take one of his children or grandchildren to die from drug overdose before he comes to his senses
Seems there is still medical concerns here, especially as I would imagine that pre-packaged one-time does is not amenable to “small doses every few minutes”. From WIkipedia
> Administration to opioid-dependent individuals may cause symptoms of opioid withdrawal, including restlessness, agitation, nausea, vomiting, a fast heart rate, and sweating. To prevent this, small doses every few minutes can be given until the desired effect is reached. In those with previous heart disease or taking medications that negatively affect the heart, further heart problems have occurred.
Perhaps a much more important question than this single Sheriff of very limited scope and affect is the drug itself. “Business Insider” of 2016 quotes as follows:
> “We’re not talking about a limited commodity. Naloxone is a medicine that is almost as cheap as sterile sodium chloride — salt water,”
> “At the same time this epidemic is killing tens of thousands of Americans a year, we’re seeing the price of naloxone go up by 1000% or more,”
As on example of many it gives:
> As of October 2014 — the most recent time for which prices are available — Hospira’s version of naloxone was $15.80 a dose. That’s up from $0.92 a dose in 2005, according to Truven Health Analytics.
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ignorant sheriff he will not have a job soon enough or will cave to pressure…but his response is obvious not just based on personal safety
of course not… he said “we’ve had enough”, meaning he’s fed up with dealing with addict and rather let them die… sick that he has the power to make that call
I don’t understand the legalities here. The drug in question is a prescription drug. I would think that only medical people or the prescribed recipient can legally even hold the drug. So what does that have to do with non-medical police personnel? Aside from that, how about the potential lawsuit if some mistake was made – too much of the drug, too little or to the wrong person, especially seeing as the one administering the drug is not properly medically trained.
What hes saying is you make a decision to shoot up your on your own why should the government have to spend thousands of dollars in narcan to revive you when you made the choice to use. if attics know their on their own and nobodys coming to help maybe they’ll think twice and if they dont well its their choice
georgeg – this drug is a very unusual exception. I am not an expert, but I learned this from all of the advertisements I see on the NYC subway, and from School and Camp trade shows. It seems that it is NOT a typical restricted prescription drug. They are willing to give it away for free to anyone that wants to carry it around, seemingly even without any training at all. (My kids were given them as free samples to camp counselors.) The posters include stories about moron drug addicts that managed to (temporarily) save the lives of other moron drug addicts when they found them unconscious from an overdose.
Possible explanations may be that the drug is packaged in an easy-to-use fool-proof single-use spray that avoids many of the problems you suggested. It might even be harmless to normal humans. OTOH, there are the potential benefits of saving lives that would 100% be lost without it.
That’s all I know. I don’t know how someone is supposed to recognize when this drug is appropriate (meaning if you didn’t already know the patient is an addict.) I don’t know what types of overdoses it is effective for. From the aforementioned subway ads, I thing Opioids, but I don’t even know what those are.
I agree with the other posters in that I suspect the real reason is the Sheriff would rather that the addicts die,
Seems like all these right wing nutcases have adopted “cowboy hats” as their uniform (he doesn’t look yeshivish and the hat is not black)…remember ” Sheriff Joe” out in Arizona (who is facing federal charges for ignoring a court order) and Sheriff Dave from Milwaukee (who had to withdraw from consideration as a Homeland Security nominee for having plagiarized some of his aprticles etc). Sadly, it will probably take one of his children or grandchildren to die from drug overdose before he comes to his senses
Seems there is still medical concerns here, especially as I would imagine that pre-packaged one-time does is not amenable to “small doses every few minutes”. From WIkipedia
> Administration to opioid-dependent individuals may cause symptoms of opioid withdrawal, including restlessness, agitation, nausea, vomiting, a fast heart rate, and sweating. To prevent this, small doses every few minutes can be given until the desired effect is reached. In those with previous heart disease or taking medications that negatively affect the heart, further heart problems have occurred.
Perhaps a much more important question than this single Sheriff of very limited scope and affect is the drug itself. “Business Insider” of 2016 quotes as follows:
> “We’re not talking about a limited commodity. Naloxone is a medicine that is almost as cheap as sterile sodium chloride — salt water,”
> “At the same time this epidemic is killing tens of thousands of Americans a year, we’re seeing the price of naloxone go up by 1000% or more,”
As on example of many it gives:
> As of October 2014 — the most recent time for which prices are available — Hospira’s version of naloxone was $15.80 a dose. That’s up from $0.92 a dose in 2005, according to Truven Health Analytics.