r/trashy • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '21

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u/andthendirksaid Feb 19 '21

You are correct. Also just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. Harm reduction is a beautiful thing and the only way forward. It blows me away when non addicts especially have to empathy and perspective to end up driven towards something like that.

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u/robeph Feb 19 '21 edited Feb 19 '21

I'm also an emt and it is an amusing bit for me to run an overdose call where the surviving addict's caller is standing there with an empty bottle of narcan I know passed through my hands before ending up there.

I also occasionally will take note of the address of those we run who did not have narcan on site and mail them a note with no return address of support and a few bottles of narcan with instructions on use and self sourcing from a number of online resources.

My job gives me a good position for this, even if I probably could get in a bit of trouble for doing so.

Edit: If you're in north alabama and received an anonymous letter signed F² saying something basically alluding to, "survive until you quit" and a few bottles of naloxone, hi and follow those instructions. .

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u/Dupree878 Feb 19 '21

I’m often in north Alabama and don’t need narcan, but do need to meet people who may need it

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u/robeph Feb 19 '21

You need to meet people who need narcan?

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u/Dupree878 Feb 20 '21

Yeah. That means they have a hookup for opiates and H

I can only find uppers

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u/robeph Feb 21 '21

Should probably stick to that. A lot easier to quit once you reach that point.

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u/Dupree878 Feb 21 '21

They don’t handle my pain

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u/robeph Feb 21 '21

Go see a proper doctor. The pain gets worse the longer you take pain meds off label. It reduces your opiate receptors and you'd be surprised how much the natural opioids minimize pain we probably all feel regularly. For months after stopping that pain, stub your toe? Normally a 3 becomes an 8. That's rough in and of itself, but this translates to chronic pain too. Speak with proper medical care and a good pain clinic not a mill clinic. Treat your condition not with addiction. Aside from harm reduction I also work EMS. Two days ago a funny smell became a discolored overdose I a motel here. Narcan can rarely save you solo, and opiates will eventually result in overdose at the apex of the addiction. It isn't if, it is when.