The only real hoop you have to jump through is to go through the online training course which takes about 30 minutes and is all about administration of the drug
I received my package today and feel it’s important to have around with the current rise in opioid overdoses.
Their kit does not include CPR masks so I recommend purchasing some to keep with your doses. (Won’t share a link due to Amazon boycott)
I would’ve bought some ages ago if I lived in a bigger city.
I would argue just like Juno did that the naloxone dose being too high has nothing to do with ease of administration as that’s already ensured by the spray being so easy to use. it looks more like severe negligence and ableism from the pharma companies to me.
as far as I understand, accounting for the nasal route only having 50% bioavailability, shouldn’t a nasal spray have a maximum of 0.8 mg of naloxone? Juno said that there are people working on putting lower doses on the market for general distribution.
they also mention that it’s possible to stop the overdose without ruining someone’s high but that probably requires more educated training than most harm reduction resources offer. sounds to me like people are shifting blame from themselves forcing someone into withdrawal to the substance user being “violent” (this is extremely rare and mostly a rumor started by copaganda and ableist healthcare workers).
I wonder how an article in a medical journal “Treating overdose without blowing a patient’s sweet high” would go.
I am on board with ensuring doses don’t cause unnecessary discomfort… but dead from OD vs withdraw is a pretty clear choice
The goal in nasal administered drugs is to make it easy enough a moron with minimal training can be useful (I am a moron with minimal medical training)