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[quote=Anonymous]There is a Netflix documentary re Huntington, WVA which had the highest opiate overdose rate in the US and there the fire department carries it. The fire chief explained while she believes in using narcan as many times as possible on the same person because each time she believes it’s a chance for them to finally get clean, many other fire officials and police do not share that sentiment and don’t want to carry it.  Many addicts don’t care if they overdose several times and use Marc an as a crutch.  They know the fire department will bring it and save them so they shot up time and time again. Some even get narcan more than once a day.  The first responders are pissed about that, they don’t see Marc an as the answer and think it exacerbates the crisis.  Some want a limit on how many times an individual can be given narcan (hard to track), some don’t want any narcan at all and if the user dies they die and maybe some will get the message and stop using.  Narcan also is expensive, especially when it’s now used in such high quantities.

I suspect some of these reasons may be DCs reasons. [/quote]

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