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Narcan which is used for opioid overdoses can now be bought over the counter.
www.fda.gov
news.walgreens.com
What is this? To me this pretty much says "when you do drugs and overdose just use this and you can save a dopeheads life so they can live to do more drugs later". This is essentially approving drug use and diminishes their negative effects. It makes opiod abuse a little more acceptable.
When I was a kid we had slogans like don't do drugs, DARE officers came to our schools and talked about drugs, comic books had little ads about not doing drugs, cartoons would sometimes have little messages about not doing drugs and so on. What happened to all of that?
We should be discouraging drug use, not normalizing it.

FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first naloxone nasal spray product available without a prescription.

Walgreens Announces Over-the-Counter (OTC) NARCAN® Nasal Spray Will Become Available This September
In support of the launch, the healthcare company, in partnership with non-profit End Overdose, is educating Americans on how to administer this lifesaving medication that can reverse the effect
What is this? To me this pretty much says "when you do drugs and overdose just use this and you can save a dopeheads life so they can live to do more drugs later". This is essentially approving drug use and diminishes their negative effects. It makes opiod abuse a little more acceptable.
When I was a kid we had slogans like don't do drugs, DARE officers came to our schools and talked about drugs, comic books had little ads about not doing drugs, cartoons would sometimes have little messages about not doing drugs and so on. What happened to all of that?
We should be discouraging drug use, not normalizing it.