As a former EMT, and now 911 Dispatcher, my city has seen a few fentanyl OD's......My brother, who works for the fire department in a neighboring city, has seen a few more, administering Narcan...
As a former EMT, and now 911 Dispatcher, my city has seen a few fentanyl OD's......My brother, who works for the fire department in a neighboring city, has seen a few more, administering Narcan himself a few times to bring someone back.
It's awful that we're reaching this point where Narcan use is almost as common as Epi Pen use. And Narcan is extremely easy to administer to the point where no one shouldn't know how to use it. My ambulance didn't have the epi pen style Narcan of the author but ours were basically single use, intra nasal syringes. They had a fixed dose, with a sponge like tip, that we could stick in the nose and plunge the syringe. Boom, instant Narcan, right into the respiratory system.
But as long as healthcare remains a for profit industry, we'll never make a dent in the various healthcare crises around the country because it's simply too profitable to keep throwing drugs at these people rather than get them the help they actually need
My wife works with rehabs and sober living homes and the epidemic is not going to get any better any time soon. Rehabs make so much money off the addicts that they are able to pay for sober living...
My wife works with rehabs and sober living homes and the epidemic is not going to get any better any time soon. Rehabs make so much money off the addicts that they are able to pay for sober living for the client. This sounds good, but not when they refuse to enforce a no drugs/no using policy. These places would rather keep the steady flow of money than risk upsetting the addicts and forcing them to stay clean. On average, 1 out of 20 of her patients is actually looking to get clean. The rest know the rehab is just something they have to show up to in order to be able to stay under a roof. It’s also a great place to meet other addicts who know which doctors will pay them to get worked up with fake diagnosis. Now they have access to money, then drugs, and sharing drugs gets them popular and/or laid. There’s zero incentive to get clean. It’s a corrupt system preying on these addicts, keeping them using so the rehab and sober living owners can continue to get money from insurance companies. Nothing will change as long as those with the money continue to make more.
As a former EMT, and now 911 Dispatcher, my city has seen a few fentanyl OD's......My brother, who works for the fire department in a neighboring city, has seen a few more, administering Narcan himself a few times to bring someone back.
It's awful that we're reaching this point where Narcan use is almost as common as Epi Pen use. And Narcan is extremely easy to administer to the point where no one shouldn't know how to use it. My ambulance didn't have the epi pen style Narcan of the author but ours were basically single use, intra nasal syringes. They had a fixed dose, with a sponge like tip, that we could stick in the nose and plunge the syringe. Boom, instant Narcan, right into the respiratory system.
But as long as healthcare remains a for profit industry, we'll never make a dent in the various healthcare crises around the country because it's simply too profitable to keep throwing drugs at these people rather than get them the help they actually need
My wife works with rehabs and sober living homes and the epidemic is not going to get any better any time soon. Rehabs make so much money off the addicts that they are able to pay for sober living for the client. This sounds good, but not when they refuse to enforce a no drugs/no using policy. These places would rather keep the steady flow of money than risk upsetting the addicts and forcing them to stay clean. On average, 1 out of 20 of her patients is actually looking to get clean. The rest know the rehab is just something they have to show up to in order to be able to stay under a roof. It’s also a great place to meet other addicts who know which doctors will pay them to get worked up with fake diagnosis. Now they have access to money, then drugs, and sharing drugs gets them popular and/or laid. There’s zero incentive to get clean. It’s a corrupt system preying on these addicts, keeping them using so the rehab and sober living owners can continue to get money from insurance companies. Nothing will change as long as those with the money continue to make more.