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10. This is wonderful

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:14 PM

Jun 2014

I am so glad that this drug exists and that there are people in law enforcement who believe people's lives are worth saving, whether they are addicted to a substance or not. There are people who believe addicts should simply suffer their deaths as a consequence of their actions, but I don't know how they expect to teach a lesson to a dead person.

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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