Posted on 11/21/2016 12:29:29 PM PST by ColdOne
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia is now allowing anyone in the state to buy naloxone, an opioid overdose treatment drug, without a prescription.
Health Commissioner Marissa Levine issued the order Monday allowing the change, while also declaring the state’s growing opioid addiction problem a public health emergency.
Some pharmacies in Virginia already provide naloxone without a prescription, but Levine says she wants to make sure the opioid overdose antidote is available throughout the state as opioid-related deaths continue to rise.
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“Geez.....add this to obama legacy, drug addiction up”
Securing the border should go a long way in reducing heroin addiction.
Yup. We Virginians can REALLY hold our narcotics...
Seriously, though, elephant tranquilizers? What the heck is wrong with people?
Does he still have a program?
Won’t touch it. Most of our heroin addiction problem comes from over prescribing painkillers. We turn people into Oxy junkies, then cut off their supply. No border in the world is fixing that.
Laid off middle age white men. No job, no wife, no hope.
The opioid problem is really an economic problem.
Men lost their jobs of 20 years because the factory moved overseas. They cannot find another one, because they do no exist.
His wife divorces him, because she is tired of being married to a guy that does not work and as a “single mom” she will get government benefits while looking for a new man with a job.
He cannot find another woman, because no decent woman wants a man that hasn’t had a decent job in 5 years.
Why not take drugs? Feeling numb is better than feeling hopeless.
This is what NAFTA wrought.
It is like buying a snake bite kit.
You should not have to own a snake to own the antidote.
Who wouldn't want a little elephant sedation after a day at the office?/sarc.
Maybe, but most junkies are supplied by their doctors and pharmacist.
Opioids is opioids. The only real difference between human and elephant tranquilizers once they’re opioid is dosage. You could give elephants Oxy if you wanted to, but it’ll take a lot of those pills.
And I, for one, will pray that you never do need to use it.
Laid off middle age white men. No job, no wife, no hope.
Add to that the milenials who went to college and are living in mom and dad’s basement because they cannot find a decent job. If they do happen to have a job and are living independently, it is usually just enough to get by. They cannot afford to get married, buy a home or start a family.
A nation full of hopeless and helpless.
Eight years down the road.....How’s that hope and change working out?
We turn people into Oxy junkies, then cut off their supply. No border in the world is fixing that.
In the meantime, my 80 year old mother has to beg for pain relief.
It’s not a myth. It’s a simple fact that we GROSSLY over prescribe opioid painkillers. You think it’s a coincidence this recent rise in heroin use came right after they started cracking down on doctor shopping and Oxy scripts? Bad doctors made it harder for good doctors. Also didn’t help that the makers of Oxy lied and said it was non-addictive.
Part of the problem is that we hand out opioids like they’re Skittles and refuse to acknowledge the painkilling effects of marijuana derivatives. It’s a weird world when you think about it.
Congratulations on your sobriety. As the mother of an addict, this issue hits close to home. I have read more articles than I care to admit. I have attended lectures. Spoken to law enforcement, medical personnel, addiction specialists. I was told by professionals that this epidemic is not like anything they have seen before. Dealers who have been arrested, stated they were told to sell to white middle class males. Imagine that, this is being actively marketed to the suburbs. There is little to no funding for service announcements or assemblies at school to warn of the dangers. No “Just say no” campaign. Instead the government has cracked down on prescription drugs to the point where doctors are afraid to prescribe. And my 80 year old mother has to beg for pain relief.
I just re-certified on CPR and AED, and lo and behold! In the class there was a section on naloxone / Narcan. They’re usually pound-the-table insistent that civilians do not administer drugs of any kind, and yet here it was. It was an inhaler, and a lot of commercial first-aid kits are starting to include them. Interesting stuff.
thanks for info. it just shocked me when I found out how many people are now on these type of drugs. Od’s all over the place.
Got to keep the massed drugged up. Commie goal....forget the number.
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