#naloxone

[chronicallycouchbound]

People who use drugs deserve love and kindness.

Abstinence is not the only form of recovery. AA/NA doesn’t work for everyone. Sometimes people choose to use instead of meeting other needs, which is valid. Some people use for recreational purposes. Some people use for medicinal purposes. Some people who use have substance abuse disorder. Treatment looks different for everyone. Not everyone needs or wants treatment, for various reasons. The only thing Naloxone enables is breathing. Active use is not shameful. People who use drugs often also deal drugs. People in recovery should not shame active users. Active users deserve love. Active users deserve someone to check in on them, get them safer use supplies, and get them pizza. Active users deserve to be listened to. They deserve better than to have that be the first time anyone ever treated them as human since they began using.

Let’s care for each other.

#chronically couchbound #tw drugs #recovery #narcan #naloxone #harm reduction #harm redux #drug usage #addiction #active users #people in recovery #harm reduction saves lives #naloxone enables breathing #abstinence #alcoholism #substance use #substance addiction #safe use #safe use supplies #harm reduction is mutual aid #mutual aid #community care #narcan saves lives #AA/NA #narcotics anonymous #alcoholics anonymous

[vsrobotjulie]

hey ontario people they're giving out naloxone kits at shoppers now. just go to the pharmacy and ask for one. have your health card on hand since they might ask for it. they're free. narcan saves lives, it's good to have on hand no matter your lifestyle.

#ontario #shoppers drug mart #narcan #naloxone #harm reduction #people who use drugs #people who do drugs

[allthecanadianpolitics]

People living in a trio of Vancouver Island communities now have a new way to discreetly access harm-reduction supplies. Island Health has installed three new “Care and Connection Kiosks” outside emergency departments at hospitals in Victoria, Nanaimo and Campbell River. Brad Pommen describes the kiosks as essentially “a four-foot iPhone” on a vending machine. The automated units anonymously dispense a variety of the most commonly sought harm reduction items from emergency rooms, including naloxone kits, drug testing strips, wound-care kits, condoms and safe sharps disposal containers.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#harm reduction #Drugs #naloxone #Vancouver Island #british columbia #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news

[angelnumber27]

If you have friends or loved ones on opiates or even if you don’t and just care about addicts in general, please carry narcan!!! Preferably on your person as well as in your car if that applies. You can get narcan along with fentanyl test strips (to test your/ your loved ones’ pills if needed) online for free. I HIGHLY recommend doing this asap, especially if you’re somebody who is actively taking these substances or somebody close to someone who is.

As I said, it is important for even people who aren’t on these substances to carry narcan just in case. It’s free and could save lives, there is simply no reason not to.

#harm reduction #important #mine #addiction recovery #opiates #opiate addiction #addiction #drug addiction #recovery #harm reduction is so fucking important #harm redux #upload #narcan #naloxone #very important

[footnoteinhistory]

Yesterday the FDA approved the second over-the-counter, prescription-free opioid overdose reversal drug, ReVive. Manufactured by the Harm Reduction Therapeutics, ReVive is a naloxone nasal spray similar to Narcan—except ReVive is non-profit!

It’s expected to be available early next year at more affordable prices than Narcan. HRT plans on making 200,000 doses available for free. Useful twitter thread about why more naloxone options are a good thing.

#as the OP says calling it naloxone > narcan #harm reduction #naloxone #gets complicated when you follow the money as usual but that should not take away from the net good at all #this will save lives #💜

[waambles]

ITS UP TO US TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES SAFE!

As the overdose and fentanyl crisis continues, it’s up to us to minimize harm when our governments have failed us! Break the stigma 💕

#narcan #narcan saves lives #naloxone #puppywuppy #puppyboy #kawaiicore #cute core #political #leftist #kawaii #webcore #collage #harm reduction #harm redux #prevention #pastel

[boof-chamber]

Why am I having so much trouble finding naloxone? I’m working on building a harm reduction network in my neighborhood and I was able to find a way to get inexpensive pipes, test strips, and other supplies, but I cannot find any affordable way to get enough Naloxone to distribute.

#naloxone #narcan #harm reduction #harm redux #class solidarity #pwud

[xe-5aj1700155-024]

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#Prenoxad #Nyxoid #Naloxone #Cry Of Fear #Andreas Rönnberg #Quai 9 #Genève #Central / Northern Europe

[reasonsforhope]

“Wanting to see if a simple idea could help a huge problem, researchers from Cincinnati filled a vending machine with overdose prevention equipment and began to record its uses.

From February to November in 2021, an anonymous call center registered 637 people for the program with an access code to the vending machine which distributed 3,360 naloxone doses and 10,155 fentanyl test strips.

Taking place in Hamilton County, the machine is credited for a reduction in drug overdose deaths and HIV incidence.

Lead scientist Daniel Arendt described the method as “harm reduction,” which acknowledges that people always have, and probably always will, use drugs even if they’re potentially lethal in large doses.

Harm reduction, as the University of Cininnati press describes, is a paradigm that “does not support or enable drug use, but instead aims to empathetically meet people where they are in the course of their drug use and help empower them to take steps which minimize the potential hazards associated with its use.”

To this end, program participants were able to visit the vending machine 24/7, away from prying eyes and judgemental glances. Naloxone is a drug that can counteract opioid overdoses, and the test strips can test heavier drugs that could potentially be laced with fentanyl. The machine also has safer injection kits, tourniquets, and bandages.

“If you are interested in stopping, we’re here to help,” said Arendt. “But if not, we aren’t going to turn you away and refuse to help. We are going to work with you and help you take steps that will help keep you safe.”

Some of the results are extremely encouraging. At the time the study was published, clients reported 288 overdoses were reversed with naloxone, a number which almost reached 1,000 by the time of writing. More than two-thirds of those who reenrolled after their first enrollment detected fentanyl present in the drugs they were consuming.” -via Good News Network, 12/8/22

#harm reduction #overdose #opiod crisis #addiction #fentanyl #cw drugs #cw drug use #naloxone #vending machine #good news #hope #medical research

[sybilius]

Hey Canadian (Ontario?) residents, you can get these really nice little free naloxone kits (expiring 2025) from your local pharmacy if they have a sign and you ask.

I would say if you have any contact with urban environments with drug use (even just taking the bus and walking to work!) Please consider asking for one and reading the little pamphlet. The free kits are opt-in so even if you never save a life, making sure the resource is used and distributed gives it a stronger chance of being available in the future.

#drug use #opioid use #naloxone #mine is living in my backpack just in case

[chronicallycouchbound]

An important thing about me is that I fully support people who use substances, people in recovery, people who use in moderation, people who’ve never used, and none of those things contradict each other.

I’m very much pro-harm reduction and always will be. I support meeting people wherever they’re at, I support people having access to knowledge they need in order to make informed decisions around their use. I support people having access to safe means to use.

And more than anything, I filly support people in active use, including (especially) problematic use. I want my community to be safe. I don’t believe that offering support to people in active use is inherently enabling. I know that the only thing Narcan/Naloxone enables is breathing.

I’ve lost too many loved ones to sit on the sidelines and hope they’ll do what’s needed to keep themselves safe. The bare minimum I can do is emotionally support my community. I need harm reduction, we all do.

#chronically couchbound #drug use #drug usage #harm reduction #harm redux #harm reduction saves lives #harm reduction is mutual aid #the only thing Narcan enables is breathing #narcan #naloxone #naloxone enables breathing #safer use #safer use supplies #safe use supplies #safe use #support people who use drugs #substance abuse treatment #substance abuse disorder #substance addiction #substance use #substance misuse #problematic use #pro harm reduction #pwud #recovery #people in recovery #active users #harm reduction abstinence moderation support #abstinence #substance use recovery

[weirdstrangeandawful]

I fucked up breaking an ampoule tonight lol… There is glass in my hand. Perfect whump opportunity. Especially since, just an example, naloxone is usually contained in glass ampoules.

It was also still bleeding several hours later??? Probably because it was impossible to get all the microscopic shards of glass out of the wound. I full shattered the ampoule in my hand... I know better... I'm a little disappointed in myself lmfao.

Also a good reminder to use an ampoule breaker or two pieces of gauze if you've got them. You don't need paramedics responding to two emergencies at once <3

#I'm also weirdly proud of that photo I just realised #I might edit it to make it nice #or draw something off it #whump #lacerations #broken glass #blood #naloxone

[anaaxiety]

Hellooo, writing this while stoned out of my mind so I apologize if I can't spell correctly. I've seen in your posts that you do fentanyl a d I just wanna say please before with that stuff. I'm sure you've been doing this for awhile and know what you're doing but I know too many people who had OD and I'd hate to see one of my favorite blogs no longer existed.

Be safe out there!

Hey darling, first of all thank you so much for your concern! I haven't touched the fent yet, I won't now that my opiod tolerance is fairly low because that'd just make any tramadol, oxy and morphine I still have useless. I will be very careful and make sure to very accurately weigh my doses when I do decide to start using it. I also test my stuff before using.

I know fentanyl has killed many and it's so devastating, I hate how it's cut into anything and everything now and people without a tolerance instantly OD on it. That's why I'm also working on getting narcan/naloxone (apparently it's prescription only here for some reason, can't even get it at a needle exchange over here as far as I know), to potentially help people if I happen to see someone OD (god forbid I hope not.) Love you and I promise I won't die, I'll be very careful! Please stay safe as well 💕🤗

#asks #harm reduction #narcan #naloxone #overdose #drug overdose #fentanyl #fent #fetty #fent epidemic #fentanyl epidemic

[jbfly46]

Gluten is a synthetic adhesive and flour is bleached with naloxone. Naloxone kills nerve cells.

#health #food #gluten #flour #naloxone

[shmingleping]

"Dreams of living, thoughts of suicide"

Lyric from 'Naloxone' by Scrim from his album A Man Rose From The Dead

#$b #$uicideboy$ #scrim #naloxone #lyrics #this line hit home for sure #a man rose from the dead #about me #depression #anxiety #mental health aint doin very well lately #as in its fucking terrible #worse than ever #which says something bc ive had some seriously low lows in the past #fuck.. #thoughts #dreams #wish one of the two would work out #im not holding out any hope though for either #fucking hate myself

[gwydionmisha]

I hope these go into production soon.

#Naloxone #Harm Reduction #Overdose #Inventions #News