Why don’t more teens carry Narcan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's why I didn't have my daughter carry it (I do): if you step into the role of saving someone's life (even temporarily), then you've mentally assumed responsibility for doing it. And a teenager will feel the weight of that. If they fail - the person dies - they will feel that they failed. And that's a heavy burden I'm not prepared for my teenager to take on.

This is deeply narcissistic.

[Anonymous]

My kid isn’t going to carry Narcan around on the off chance that he’s around someone ODing at some point for the same reason that he doesn’t carry a defibrillator. There is little chance that he would ever need to use it, so it would be an undue burden to always carry it around. He would carefully check the pockets of someone ODing to see if THEY have narcan. Happy to help if they do.

[Anonymous]

My kids carry around cell phones so if they see something bad happening, they can call the police.

By OP's logic, I guess we should all carry defibrillators, episode-pens, narcan, etc. Where do you draw the line? I don't even carry bandaids or tampons on my person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids don't hang with druggie losers so there's no need.

I am sure they do sand you should probably do your research about "loser druggies" before claiming they are losers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not an EMT. I don’t think we’re at a point where we should be asking children to revive overdose victims. And if we are, well god help us.

Let's let fat people who have heart attacks die as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not an EMT. I don’t think we’re at a point where we should be asking children to revive overdose victims. And if we are, well god help us.

Let's let fat people who have heart attacks die as well.

So you have a defibrillator in your purse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would individual kids carry it? The school office/ heath center, sure. But not individual kids.

+1. Even in our elementary schools, on the wall next to the nurse's office is a container on the wall that looks like one of the "break in case of fire" cases for fire extinguishers. It has Norcan and a warning to break if needed. In the middle school, they have the boxes in more than one location to make it more accessible.

My kid doesn't need to carry it on their person.

[Anonymous]

Once he’s 18 our kid will have our blessing to use Uber (on our dime) to get a drunk friend (or himself) home safely rather than driving drunk. Before that, we will give rides, no questions asked. The chance of this being a useful, potentially lifesaving intervention is much greater than carrying narcan around.

[Anonymous]

If my teen encounters someone who appears to have overdosed, I want them to call 911, not make their own independent judgment about whether Narcan is appropriate and sufficient. My teen is not a trained EMT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not an EMT. I don’t think we’re at a point where we should be asking children to revive overdose victims. And if we are, well god help us.

Let's let fat people who have heart attacks die as well.

So you have a defibrillator in your purse?

It's right beside her epipen above the blood plasma bags beside the tourniquets

[Anonymous]

I’ve been close to some heart breaking OD stories recently. So I might be willing to carry myself. But, how would I know when to use it? Is this covered in modern first aid classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this real?

People just carry Narcan around?

No. People don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I keep reading about people and sometimes teens who are OD’ing thanks to fentanyl laced coke or Oxy. I equipped my kid with Narcan just in case. It’s cheap and easy and you never know who he’ll be around or what will happen. I’d rather him be prepared. Why don’t more parents/the schools do this? Of course it would be better if no one was doing drugs but that’s not the reality and ultimately I want all of our kids to live.

How about an Epi-Pen? or an Inhaler? Just in case... I mean, people can die from allergies too.

A bit paranoid OP, What does your teen think of you "equipping" him with Narcan?

I see it in the news, but I haven't heard ANY KIDS Od'ing at my kids school or in our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is absolutely insane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that this is absolutely insane?

No you're not. I 100% agree with you.