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dilby

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3. Here in Oregon they can't arrest you if you go to the hospital after an OD.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:33 PM

Jun 2014

It's part of a no questions asked system we have to help prevent death by OD, a lot of people don't get high by themselves and this encourages other users to call if one of them is ODing and no one gets in trouble. But it does require the person who OD'd to go to the hospital.

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Staten Island cops save dying woman with shot of Naloxone [View all] MineralMan Jun 2014 OP

Hopefully they did not arrest her afterwards. dilby Jun 2014 #1

The article did not say. MineralMan Jun 2014 #2

Here in Oregon they can't arrest you if you go to the hospital after an OD. dilby Jun 2014 #3

The article said that the person was taken to the hospital. MineralMan Jun 2014 #4

It took years of activism to get PD's onboard with using his or other harm reduction methods Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #5

Yes, it did. And now, it's being implemented in many places. MineralMan Jun 2014 #6

So this is an 'activism is good because Police are deadly resistent to any change or mercy' thread Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #7

No. This is a "naloxone saves a life" story. MineralMan Jun 2014 #8

so true. police and other conservatives tend to be very against harm reduction La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2014 #9

I think harm reduction get the red out Jun 2014 #12

This is wonderful get the red out Jun 2014 #10

That's what I thought, too. It may have taken longer to get naloxone in MineralMan Jun 2014 #11