In just a few days, drugstores like Walgreens will have it in stock, for everyone. Here’s how to use it, and who it will help.
Wow, I didn’t know it wasn’t. That is crazy!
It was previously available behind the counter but a prescription was not needed .
To be clear, a prescription is still technically needed, but most states have laws in place that allows the pharmacist to write that prescription. Vaccines are done similarly.
Now it’s time for conservatives to crow about how this is a bad thing and not have a good reason why.
For my Aussie friends - there is a free Take Home Nalaxone program, you can go to a huge list of chemists and get it for free, no prescriptions, no intrusive questions, super easily.
I got mine a couple of weeks ago 😄
https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/take-home-naloxone-program/where-to-access-naloxone
Same here, at least on the west coast of Canada. Free, take one or two and go save some lives!
why in the fuck would it not be to begin with
Conservatives don’t want it?
i don’t know. i think there are many inconsequential things you can’t buy over the counter in the united states. i have to wonder if it’s a health insurance complex thing.
I mean health insurance plays a part in it. Conservatives don’t want to pay tax money on narcan for people they consider valueless when they are already paying for their own health care. How do I know they think they are valueless? They don’t want them to have access to a life savings thing. Also plenty will just straight up tell you that if you ask.
The fact this exists proves we lost the “war on drugs”
No, the people who started that war did win it. The objective was to slap black people and liberals with felonies to make them ineligible to vote, and it succeeded brilliantly.
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Source: Dan Baum, Harper’s magazine April 2016 issue, quoting Ehrlichman in 1994 in-person interview.
Ehrlichman had spent a short stint in federal prison, and since found work doing minority recruitment for an engineering firm in Atlanta. Reported on by CNN, with reactions from his family.
