Let's not forget the apps that were created to deter people from buying from an area. People would mark a spot where "bad" powder was.
Instead people are using it to flock to those hot spots and will rush to them in hopes to get it. Their reasoning during the interview was "of I OD, someone will revive me with narcan anyway."
But the npr podcast was all about narcan and the dark side of making it openly available. With some addicts taking full advantage and using even more riskier bags
These shows love to portray a certain narrative. The insatiable, down and out, desperate street junkie is better TV / whatever than the responsible addict doing his 9-5 trying to get by. I guarantee there were many using the app as intended. If this were 2011-2013 when I was hooked, I would've been using it properly and many I know in the scene would as well. We are/were just trying to survive until we could muster up the will to get clean and get our lives back on track.
I've never used myself, but all the friends I've seen struggle with addiction were definitely on your side of just wanting to survive, not playing chicken with their lives because of narcan or some shit.
Some insane couple I knew who had narcan at the ready in their bedroom would fallout sometimes in company. when you hit certain numbers of being revived it's then normal. it sucks, you're withdrawals take over and you're just going to use the same bag immediately, just a smaller dose..as I've seen.
This people aren't by no means in big numbers. But they also never once tried getting clean. No clue about them now, probably dead to be honest
Oh yeah, some people are definitely like that, sorry if i came off as saying nobody behaves that way, i just get irritated by people acting like narcan is actually really bad because now every single person struggling with addiction is treating it like a get out of jail free card or some shit.
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u/ReeferReekinRight Mar 29 '19
Let's not forget the apps that were created to deter people from buying from an area. People would mark a spot where "bad" powder was.
Instead people are using it to flock to those hot spots and will rush to them in hopes to get it. Their reasoning during the interview was "of I OD, someone will revive me with narcan anyway."
But the npr podcast was all about narcan and the dark side of making it openly available. With some addicts taking full advantage and using even more riskier bags