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Title: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: MillCreek on December 23, 2016, 04:03:31 PM
http://stopoverdose.org/section/take-the-online-training/

Because of the prevalence of opiate use, all of us should take a few minutes out of our lives to watch the video. 
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 23, 2016, 07:06:43 PM
Okay, I'll be your attending curmudgeon for this evening:

WHY should I intervene if a doper wants to kill him/herself with an overdose? "Saving a life" is just postponing the inevitable.
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: HeroHog on December 23, 2016, 07:56:14 PM
As someone who has had occasion to be prescribed large amounts of codone based narcotics for various ailments/surgeries in and out of the service, I can say with some authority that, when on one's own and caring for one's self, it can be quite easy to lose track of when you took your last dose and when you should take your next dose as you still hurt a good deal even though, according to observers, you were already as high as a kite. Do that enough and you are well overdosed. Me? I just got mad at a Coke machine when it took my money and didn't give my drink. I broke the machine and fractured my hand when I punched it (I did get my drink). I didn't know till the next morning when I woke with a sore hand and someone told me what I did. I started writing down what I took and when...
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on December 23, 2016, 08:18:03 PM
Depends who they are . I know folks who I might not save. Others I would. I am today right grateful to the emt's in 81 who brought me back


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Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: De Selby on December 24, 2016, 04:37:01 AM
Okay, I'll be your attending curmudgeon for this evening:

WHY should I intervene if a doper wants to kill him/herself with an overdose? "Saving a life" is just postponing the inevitable.

Maybe this article is aimed at people who are Christians and who might want to do something compassionate in Christ's example.

Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 24, 2016, 08:36:46 AM
Maybe this article is aimed at people who are Christians and who might want to do something compassionate in Christ's example.

Burn!  :laugh:
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: Monkeyleg on December 24, 2016, 09:52:58 AM
I took the title to mean that you could save someone by using an opiate overdose.
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 24, 2016, 11:04:15 AM
Maybe this article is aimed at people who are Christians and who might want to do something compassionate in Christ's example.


Mate, my daughter has attempted suicide eight times over the past year and a half. She's in another country, so there was no way for me to intervene (or not) in any of the incidents. She was "saved" each time, a few of them by what could be classified as "heroic" measures. From a Christian perspective, I have to wonder if the various EMTs and doctors who saved her each time did her any favors.

Kindly don't presume to lecture me about my religion. You have no idea who any of us are or what we've been through.
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: dm1333 on December 24, 2016, 11:39:20 AM
Mate, my daughter has attempted suicide eight times over the past year and a half. She's in another country, so there was no way for me to intervene (or not) in any of the incidents. She was "saved" each time, a few of them by what could be classified as "heroic" measures. From a Christian perspective, I have to wonder if the various EMTs and doctors who saved her each time did her any favors.

Kindly don't presume to lecture me about my religion. You have no idea who any of us are or what we've been through.

The same applies to you and all those "dopers" that you don't know but are willing to pass judgment on.
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: HeroHog on December 24, 2016, 11:53:12 AM
I can't believe I'm the one calling for calm but, come on guys, Please cease poking each other with the sharp sticks of religion, family and personal experiences that differ from your own.

Please?
Title: Re: How to save someone with an opiate overdose
Post by: Jamisjockey on December 24, 2016, 12:00:26 PM
Merry *expletive deleted*ing Christmas.