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Keys, phone, naloxone: In downtown Ottawa, the antidote to opioid overdoses has become an item some people won’t leave home without (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 8 months ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Since the congregation took naloxone training in March, there’s been seven outside St. Albans. But that number is quite modest. At the drop-in centre beneath the church, where some of Ottawa’s most afflicted seek daytime refuge once the overnight shelters close, they’re doing at least one [naloxone application] a day.

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[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy that without these drugs these folks would all be willing to give up their life for a high.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it's a rational decision by the time they're addicted.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but people quit addictions all the time. Smoking is on a massive decline, drinking too. Somehow the drug that can kill you in an instant is so popular that churches are handing out kits to save them. Insanity.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Comparing nicotine addiction to opioid addiction is... Something.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meh, opioid addiction is a waste of our time. We should let them figure it out themselves. They're all adults.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't understand why people are addicted to drugs

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you don't understand it. These people made a choice to start using drugs and got addicted. It sucks but they made that choice.

Not sure why the rest of society needs to pay for their shitty decisions.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't tell if you're serious or not

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

100% serious why should I care about drug addicts and criminals killing themselves? Let them.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What no materialist analysis does to a mfer