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LePage is correct. All this does is perpetuate the drug use. It's a way for drug companies to make more money. Drug companies don't want to cure anything. If they did then they'd be out of business. Seriously, when was the last time a drug company actually came out with a cure?
What LePage is trying to do from the sounds of it is to force people into talking to a doctor so that maybe the doctor can convince them to try and kick the drug habit. That will save more lives in the long run than this drug ever will.
Governor Blocks Access To Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts | ThinkProgress
Governor Blocks Access to Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts
Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) vetoed a bill Wednesday that could save the lives of hundreds of people struggling with drug abuse in the state. The bill would have allowed pharmacists to dispense naloxone — the drug that once injected, reverses opioid overdoses — to anyone who may be at risk of overdosing, or someone close to them who could administer it in an emergency.
LePage said that making naloxone more accessible would only “perpetuate the cycle of addiction” in Maine, a state at the epicenter of the opioid crisis. Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing prescription-free naloxone, which is known on pharmacy shelves as Narcan — and major pharmacy chains, like Walgreens and CVS, have openly welcomed the move. While Maine already allows people to access naloxone if they have a prescription, these new laws cut out unnecessary time and money spent obtaining a doctor’s note.
“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” LePage wrote in his veto letter, according to the Portland Herald. “Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction.”
Injecting someone with naloxone who is overdosing from heroin or another opioid can save their life. Members of the state legislature — along with many other critics — say LePage’s veto is a direct disregard to citizens’ lives…………..
This a person without any socially redeeming qualities……………Where did you folks in Maine find this guy?............in the woods?
Governor Blocks Access To Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts | ThinkProgress
Governor Blocks Access to Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts
Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) vetoed a bill Wednesday that could save the lives of hundreds of people struggling with drug abuse in the state. The bill would have allowed pharmacists to dispense naloxone — the drug that once injected, reverses opioid overdoses — to anyone who may be at risk of overdosing, or someone close to them who could administer it in an emergency.
LePage said that making naloxone more accessible would only “perpetuate the cycle of addiction” in Maine, a state at the epicenter of the opioid crisis. Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing prescription-free naloxone, which is known on pharmacy shelves as Narcan — and major pharmacy chains, like Walgreens and CVS, have openly welcomed the move. While Maine already allows people to access naloxone if they have a prescription, these new laws cut out unnecessary time and money spent obtaining a doctor’s note.
“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” LePage wrote in his veto letter, according to the Portland Herald. “Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction.”
Injecting someone with naloxone who is overdosing from heroin or another opioid can save their life. Members of the state legislature — along with many other critics — say LePage’s veto is a direct disregard to citizens’ lives…………..
This a person without any socially redeeming qualities……………Where did you folks in Maine find this guy?............in the woods?
LOL
No socially redeeming qualities because he won't provide easier access to a rescue drug for people with no socially redeeming qualities?
Awesome logic.
Governor Blocks Access To Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts | ThinkProgress
Governor Blocks Access to Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts
Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) vetoed a bill Wednesday that could save the lives of hundreds of people struggling with drug abuse in the state. The bill would have allowed pharmacists to dispense naloxone — the drug that once injected, reverses opioid overdoses — to anyone who may be at risk of overdosing, or someone close to them who could administer it in an emergency.
LePage said that making naloxone more accessible would only “perpetuate the cycle of addiction” in Maine, a state at the epicenter of the opioid crisis. Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing prescription-free naloxone, which is known on pharmacy shelves as Narcan — and major pharmacy chains, like Walgreens and CVS, have openly welcomed the move. While Maine already allows people to access naloxone if they have a prescription, these new laws cut out unnecessary time and money spent obtaining a doctor’s note.
“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” LePage wrote in his veto letter, according to the Portland Herald. “Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction.”
Injecting someone with naloxone who is overdosing from heroin or another opioid can save their life. Members of the state legislature — along with many other critics — say LePage’s veto is a direct disregard to citizens’ lives…………..
This a person without any socially redeeming qualities……………Where did you folks in Maine find this guy?............in the woods?
these people are hooked and dependent. they need counseling and help in order to get their lives straightened back out.
there have been plenty of drug addicts with the proper help turn their lives around.
others not so much.
however this drug is not a help but a deterrent to that process.
Governor Blocks Access To Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts | ThinkProgress
Governor Blocks Access to Lifesaving Drug For Heroin Addicts
Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) vetoed a bill Wednesday that could save the lives of hundreds of people struggling with drug abuse in the state. The bill would have allowed pharmacists to dispense naloxone — the drug that once injected, reverses opioid overdoses — to anyone who may be at risk of overdosing, or someone close to them who could administer it in an emergency.
LePage said that making naloxone more accessible would only “perpetuate the cycle of addiction” in Maine, a state at the epicenter of the opioid crisis. Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing prescription-free naloxone, which is known on pharmacy shelves as Narcan — and major pharmacy chains, like Walgreens and CVS, have openly welcomed the move. While Maine already allows people to access naloxone if they have a prescription, these new laws cut out unnecessary time and money spent obtaining a doctor’s note.
“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” LePage wrote in his veto letter, according to the Portland Herald. “Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction.”
Injecting someone with naloxone who is overdosing from heroin or another opioid can save their life. Members of the state legislature — along with many other critics — say LePage’s veto is a direct disregard to citizens’ lives…………..
This a person without any socially redeeming qualities……………Where did you folks in Maine find this guy?............in the woods?
Do they have access to rehab
Is addiction classed as an illness?
What I see here is people blaming an addiction, refusing to provide medical care, and blame the addict for the addiction.
Let them die. Right?
Addict OD's, no drug to halt it. He dies, pretty simple.No one here has said anything like that. What we're saying is that giving an addict a better way to be an addict is not a good thing.
Did you bother to look before you asked?Do they have access to rehab
Is addiction classed as an illness?
What I see here is people blaming an addiction, refusing to provide medical care, and blame the addict for the addiction.
Let them die. Right?
or maybe they should seek council and rehab then they wouldn't have to worry about
the drug.
better yet not take heroin to begin with.
Why should hard working taxpayers foot the bill for everything ? :roll:
Did you bother to look before you asked?
"Even if you don’t have good comprehensive health insurance though, there are still a number of free or very affordable drug and alcohol treatment options within the state. Maine funds treatment beds at a number of subsidized drug and alcohol rehabs across the state, and even if you are not eligible for Medicaid, you may find that you can access these state funded drug and alcohol rehab programs.
In addition to state funded rehab, there also exist a number of charity or non profit drug and alcohol rehabs, rehabs that will take you in regardless of your ability to pay for services.
Don’t suffer with addiction thinking that you can’t afford drug rehab. You can get help!"
Addiction Treatment Centers, Recovery Help, Drug and Alcohol Rehabs - Choose Help
Do they have access to rehab
Is addiction classed as an illness?
What I see here is people blaming an addiction, refusing to provide medical care, and blame the addict for the addiction.
Let them die. Right?
The 'treatment' problem is far more likely to involve those seeking help than those unable to find help. Addicts notoriously are not seeking treatment to stop. "More than 22 million Americans require treatment for addiction, but only 2.5 million seek help."I was and still am of the opinion that the US as in Canada, there are treatment facility shortages, or people that cannot afford to pay for rehab. It was asked in the form of a question.
What are wait time for these facilities?
Insite in Canada is a safe injection area, has cut down on crime, spread of HIV-Hep C, and overdose deaths.
Make sure that it's available in EMS vehicles and ERs and that should be it. By making it basically an OTC drug, all you're doing is giving people a way to avoid the consequences of their drug abuse. By limiting it to trained care personnel, you are allowing it to be used as MEDICINE instead of just another tool in the addicts toolbox of addiction. Making naloxone an OTC medicine simply perpetuates the cycle of addiction.
What a novel concept you have there.
Of course you know that is completely unacceptable.
We must, and have a moral and legal obligation, to coddle and care for those that do not give a rat's ass about their own selves.
As soon as the scales are tipped to 60 / 40 the whole house comes tumbling down because those that TAKE outnumber those that PROVIDE.
Why should hard working taxpayers foot the bill for everything ? :roll:
......* sigh *......
There you go again. Posting without thinking again.
Ok Ill give you some advice to help you with your compulsion to create a thread everytime you read something negative about the GOP
If the Link in your new thread is from a site like " Think Progress " or " Salon " or from " Media Matters ", you should probably not bother creating a thread
Make sure that it's available in EMS vehicles and ERs and that should be it. By making it basically an OTC drug, all you're doing is giving people a way to avoid the consequences of their drug abuse. By limiting it to trained care personnel, you are allowing it to be used as MEDICINE instead of just another tool in the addicts toolbox of addiction. Making naloxone an OTC medicine simply perpetuates the cycle of addiction.
Addict OD's, no drug to halt it. He dies, pretty simple.
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