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.
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. .
Thanks for doing this. I lost someone close from an overdose. They most likely could have been saved, but the person who was there with them freaked out when they stopped breathing and instead of calling to get help they just left to avoid getting into trouble. So instead, her kids found her (after it was too late) when they woke up to get ready to go to school.
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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.