Too many people are dying from overdoses!
Maybe we need to change how we address this issue.
Had a thought here--perhaps a very different approach: Heavy opioids (anything that are schedule II) in quantities greater than one dose are only legal if accompanied by a dose of Narcan.
And respond by supplying them with narcan.
I’m a little ignorant of such issues but can someone who is overdosing recognize that they are in trouble and self administer Narcan? I assumed they’d be too sick to recognize their danger or to self administer.
I do know that police officers are not thrilled with having to act as EMTs re: overdose cases as often as they do.
And to me this echoes a different response than the kind that is always attempted and always fails: maybe we should try giving them monitored spaces, make the opium dens where people go to die comfortable and safe and with counseling and exit services, and... Maybe not even charge money?
Support it through taxes.
Just don't mix things up, this is a pipeline of suicide prevention built around a recognized path to suicide, for what all that an opium den is. Or a meth spiral, or whatever they call it.
I do not think opioids are a thing people should have to pay for, because some people need them... And some people really just want to die.