Do you know about the vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses?

[msc545]

www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189599/harm-reduction-opioid-overdoses-vending-machine-narcan-clean-needles-epidemic-fentanyl-xylazine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[exitseven]

In the moonbat state I live in you can get Narcan for free. The liberals claim that the junkies do not have the money to buy Narcan so they give it away for free. I bet they have money for dope though.

When I was a kid the junkies used to get a hypodermic needle from some illegal source and use an eyedropper as a syringe. When the needles got dull they would sharpen them on a matchbook cover. Now we give them needles so they can shoot up and drop the needle on the ground where a kid could step on it.

At least they live another day to do more B&Es.

[msc545]

Thanks to predatory capitalism narcan is expensive as hell if you do things like trying to buy it from a pharmacy.

[exitseven]

yes, it is much cheaper if you get the taxpayers to buy it. Then lets get the taxpayers to set up safe injection sites staffed with a paramedic in case somebody ODs.

[Sevenpointfive]

that's so nice of them! they actually put meth in them? surprised it hasn't been robbed?

[msc545]

There is no meth in them.

[Sevenpointfive]

oh yes. this was one of biden's initiatives to keep crack off the street and make drug users more responsible. how's that going?

[msc545]

The goal is to prevent death and in that regard it's going fairly well.

[Sevenpointfive]

well good for you son. i wish we had more vending machines on the streets

[msc545]

Better than picking up dead bodies.

[Sevenpointfive]

i was being serious. i like that part of Asian culture.

[ProbablyClueless]

I do know about those machines. I wonder how much of a real world difference they make

[msc545]

Well - people get Narcan from them which keeps other people from dying of overdoses of opioids like Fentanyl.

[ProbablyClueless]

Still need to have someone with the forethought to pick up the Narcan though... You'd also need someone watching over a shooting party.

Heroin addicts aren't generally a fastidious and responsible group of people.

[msc545]

That is very true, but I've found that in general they're sort of careful about what they're injecting since they've watched a few other people die from overdoses. Narcan is not a bad thing.

[SolitarySolace]

I'm sure the vending machines in California are Chuck full of needles

[msc545]

How do you think those needles get inside the machines?

[SolitarySolace]

Same way they end up on th streets

[msc545]

And how do you think it happens the streets?