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2017-07-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Sheriff at heart of Ohio's opioid epidemic bans deputies from carrying Narcan, anti-overdose drug

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-09 03:38|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 My part of the world -- an outer suburb of Cincinnati that has everything from Section 8 apartment complexes to McMansions in the $1.9 million range.

Narcan prices have gone up considerably, according to the Daily Beast:

The auto-inject version of the drug that used to cost $575 for two doses now costs $3,750, according to Politico. The generic, Naloxone, isn’t much better: pre-crisis, the drug cost $1.84 per dose. Now, the drug costs 17 times that.

And opioid overdoses have gone up significantly, too, in part because users trust they will be repeatedly be saved from death by police and EMTs carrying the stuff.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-07-09 11:38|| 2017-07-09 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 At some point there's gonna be a lawsuit when an overdose victim dies because narcan isn't available. Of course, the "deep pockets" in that situation will be the drug companies and the taxpayers.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-09 11:41|| 2017-07-09 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 "users trust they will be repeatedly be saved from death by police and EMTs carrying the stuff"
If "users" were able to think that far ahead, they wouldn't be "users". However, saving them from death enables them to die again. And again.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-07-09 13:16|| 2017-07-09 13:16|| Front Page Top

#4 there's gonna be a lawsuit when an overdose victim dies because narcan isn't available That is why we have legistlatures, to pass laws to cover these eventualities. Laws to exempt anyone from legal liability for using naloxone in a good faith effort to revive a supposed opioid overdoser, laws to exempt organizations from lawfare if naloxone isn't available or doesn't work the way it's supposed to. I know legislative work like this will cut into the time legislators have to collect boodle and get re-elected.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-07-09 13:19|| 2017-07-09 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 LE needs it for those who accidentally come into contact with it. Today's stuff is that potent.

Posted by gorb 2017-07-09 14:17|| 2017-07-09 14:17|| Front Page Top

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