One of the biggest oppositions to the anti-overdose drug, Naloxone, is that it is not a permanent fix. A person saved from an opiate overdose with Naloxone can go right into withdrawal, and then right back into the pit of addiction. Naloxone can be seen, however, as second chance at life, a second chance to seek help, and an opportunity to travel down the path of recovery.
Malvern Treatment Centers is a Philadelphia Rehab Center that offers inpatient treatment to help with drug and alcohol abuse. By putting Naloxone in the hands of individuals who can help, people still have a chance to Choose Recovery Now.
NEW YORK TIMES – Last month, the New York police commissioner, William J. Bratton, announced that the city’s entire patrol force would soon be trained and equipped with naloxone. “Officers like it because it puts them in a lifesaving opportunity,” Mr. Bratton said, suggesting that beat officers would carry it on their belts.
When someone has overdosed on an opiate drug like heroin, the brain begins to shut down respiration, eventually leading to coma and death. Naloxone, long available in emergency rooms and to paramedics, is an opiate blocker.
In New York, the city health department worked with the Police Department to assist in the training of officers participating in a pilot program on Staten Island, where at least six overdoses have been reversed by the police this year. The expansion, giving 19,500 kits to officers in all precincts, is part of a $5 million program by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, to put naloxone in the hands of all police officers in New York State.
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