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The downside is, it can turn a sedated person into a raging monster the moment he comes off his high. I have seen it many times in my career and you should always be prudent when doing it. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
If someone is dying and you kill them attempting to save their life...? This is why I don't save strangers unless I'm on the payroll. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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The actual BLS protocol here is "Give naloxone (if available) if decreased respiratory rate and suspected narcotic overdose. Goal = adequate respiration and oxygenation (not awakened patient)." Conventional wisdom is, and has been, that if you're incorrect about the "overdose" part, IN Narcan won't harm. It won't HELP, but it won't hurt. Here in the shallow end of the EMS pool, it's intranasal 2mg or 4mg or nothing. Slamming the protocol-indicated dose by the protocol-mandated route makes for a rather ugly wake up call, often including vomiting and swinging fists. Fortunately the paramagicians have expanded adminstration routes (IV) and can titrate for effect. Also fortunately, overdoses are usually dispatched as ALS (e.g. Medic) calls, so I generally get to avoid being vomited on or punched. | |||
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Well, first you need to understand the logic of a city that allows open air drug markets, and gives out free medicine to stop illegal drug overdoses.  ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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This is used in hospital, in a postoperative setting. They are trying to save a patient from crashing to prevent their death. All the warnings shown here are something to watch for IN THE HOSPITAL, where all post-op patients will be. I’ve given out at least 100 doses of narcan. It kills someone’s high for a short time…gee that’s too bad. At least they’re breathing now. The OP’s post about giving it to junkies to get them the fuck out of your orbit is just freaking funny. The result of living in Bizzaro World. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
So…. What we need is pressurized paintballs filled with the stuff to encourage junkies to go elsewhere? | |||
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When my employer was issuing Narcan, I refused to accept it. My position was I was enforcement, not medical. I retired before it became an issue. | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
Bad decisions have consequences, pass out in the wrong neighborhood and have a rude awakening. I don't blame the residents at all. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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