Anonymous
Post 09/11/2023 00:00     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Ofc. Just like a fire extinguisher, an EpiPen, and the AED we put in the office. This is a standard first aid item.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 22:47     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If so, where do you keep it?
I was thinking of keeping it in each car's glove compartment.
My kids are typical "good" high schoolers but they do go out on the weekends.


Oh wow.
Our definitions are very different.
To me “good” assumes a basic expectation that you’re obeying the law.
Narcan is to counteract an opioid overdose. This is “going out on the weekends” for “good” kids??
What you described sounds like “risky” high schoolers.
Maybe my standards are just too high.

But that said, it sounds like you know your kids. So if you think you have a need to have Narcan in your cars, better safe than sorry.


Take a deep breath. OP is saying that her kids are good, but they still have social lives. So they're out on the weekends, around other high schoolers. Any of them could need narcan, hence the "keep it in the glove compartment" idea.

This is like trying to take someone to task for teaching their kids mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because you would never be so low as to raise a kid who can't swim.

NP here
Terrible analogy. Not knowing how to swim is not illegal. Doing illegal drugs is illegal. I have no problem with my kids hanging out with non-swimmers. I do have a problem with them hanging out with criminals.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 22:26     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:This Narcan post comes out every couple of months or so. It’s tiresome.


OP here and I've never posted anything about Narcan before.

Perhaps it's posted every few months because it's relevant to all of us with teens.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 22:18     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
This Narcan post comes out every couple of months or so. It’s tiresome.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 16:22     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
More benign-seeming (to teens) drugs can be laced. “Good” kids get curious. It happens ALL the time.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 09:00     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
My DH is a local journalist who is out on the streets regularly. He keeps one dose in his car and one in his bag as he sees overdoses a few times a year. Hasn't had to use it yet.

He got it at the DC Fire Department vending machine near National Park.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 08:58     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I find the amount of ignorance about fentanyl and narcan on this thread alarming.

People please educate yourselves just a little bit.

Please tell us where a grownup who doesn't usually (never) do drugs, got it in their system? Died alone, 'on feet' after being out in a club. Was alone, so nobody could help.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 07:51     Subject: Re:Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is this a joke? Now we’re at the point where we have to have narcan handy? What’s happened to us?


+1 I will never have Narcan handy in my house.


Yeah…I don’t get it.

I suppose if my child had a known problem with drug problem we were working on I would. But otherwise no


It only takes one time. Glad you’re so high and mighty that you’d rather your kid die after mistakenly overdosing or taking something unknowingly cut with fentanyl because you think you’re above keeping something in the house just in case.


You haven’t done your job as a parent if they do drugs. Even one time. That’s a fail on your part.


You're either an idiot or completely naive.

Anyway, I have narcan in my powder room and I have purse narcan though I don't always take it with me (depends which bag I'm carrying).

I used narcan once on a man who passed out on the street. I'm glad I had it on hand. It's not just for teenagers!


Nay kids are adults now and never touched a drug in their life. Sorry you suck as a parent. I don’t


Lol, we did stuff as teens that our parents had no clue about and still don’t. They’d say we were all very good kids.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 07:40     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Go see Tony Hoffman talk. Even the “I’m a good parent so I don’t need to worry about anything” crowd. It’s worth a listen.

https://www.tonyhoffmanspeaking.com/schools


Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 05:57     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Are you the same people who think withholding condoms will lead to abstinence? That's not how it works. This thread is shocking. And have all of you really never done pot as a teenager?
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2023 04:58     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:Next thing you know all these idiots will be carrying Narcan and then young infants and toddlers will accidentally ingest them. Or teens will use it as an excuse to get high in the house because hey, we have Narcan right here in the house. Hell no.


You are clearly showing your complete ignorance. There are no side effects to Narcan to people who have not used opioids (including children).

Next time please do a tiny bit of research before running your mouth--you sound stupid.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2023 23:30     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I find the amount of ignorance about fentanyl and narcan on this thread alarming.

People please educate yourselves just a little bit.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2023 23:20     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:Next thing you know all these idiots will be carrying Narcan and then young infants and toddlers will accidentally ingest them. Or teens will use it as an excuse to get high in the house because hey, we have Narcan right here in the house. Hell no.


You would think the fact that young children accidentally ingest things would be an argument FOR having the medication that treats accidental ingestions, not against.

Anonymous
Post 09/09/2023 23:19     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If so, where do you keep it?
I was thinking of keeping it in each car's glove compartment.
My kids are typical "good" high schoolers but they do go out on the weekends.


Oh wow.
Our definitions are very different.
To me “good” assumes a basic expectation that you’re obeying the law.
Narcan is to counteract an opioid overdose. This is “going out on the weekends” for “good” kids??
What you described sounds like “risky” high schoolers.
Maybe my standards are just too high.

But that said, it sounds like you know your kids. So if you think you have a need to have Narcan in your cars, better safe than sorry.


+1 Even if my kids had it on hand only to revive other people, I would question why my "good" kids were regularly in proximity of people who abuse opioids. What new-fangled definition of "good" is this?

We do have a lot of DCUM posters, likely trolls, who always post things to the effect that all kids past the age of 11 are having sex, drinking and doing drugs and anyone who thinks their 11+ yo kid is not doing any of that is naive. OP is probably one of those, yet again.


+1 my kids aren’t going to be administering Narcan to anyone. They would have no idea if it was medically necessary. Leave that to real doctors please.


To the doctor? They will be dead before they get there. They might die before paramedics arrive.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2023 23:18     Subject: Do you keep narcan around?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If so, where do you keep it?
I was thinking of keeping it in each car's glove compartment.
My kids are typical "good" high schoolers but they do go out on the weekends.


Oh wow.
Our definitions are very different.
To me “good” assumes a basic expectation that you’re obeying the law.
Narcan is to counteract an opioid overdose. This is “going out on the weekends” for “good” kids??
What you described sounds like “risky” high schoolers.
Maybe my standards are just too high.

But that said, it sounds like you know your kids. So if you think you have a need to have Narcan in your cars, better safe than sorry.


+1 Even if my kids had it on hand only to revive other people, I would question why my "good" kids were regularly in proximity of people who abuse opioids. What new-fangled definition of "good" is this?

We do have a lot of DCUM posters, likely trolls, who always post things to the effect that all kids past the age of 11 are having sex, drinking and doing drugs and anyone who thinks their 11+ yo kid is not doing any of that is naive. OP is probably one of those, yet again.


NP. People dying aren’t necessarily opioid abusers or addicts. They might be dumb and take a pill once a die. You are naive if you think this coukdjt happen to your kid or their friends.