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mr_lebowski

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1. Not to bag on mom, but any parent with a kid struggling w/opioid addiction should have some naloxone

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 10:40 AM

Apr 2019

on hand.

It's esp. dangerous when addicts first get out of jail or rehab where they were forced to get clean/stay off opioids for a good period of time. A lot of them don't realize just how low their tolerance has dropped (6 months basically returns you to very close to opioid-naive, like you've never taken them), whereas in one's 'using days' many can take 5-10, even 50 times more dope than an opioid-naive person can handle.

Sad story, but all too common.

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Not to bag on mom, but any parent with a kid struggling w/opioid addiction should have some naloxone mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #1