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People cannot enter recovery programs if they are not alive. Naloxone saves lives.
Leslie supported: Give us access to standard naloxone products for compassionate response to overdoseMy daughter was poisoned with Fentanyl, she will forever be 24. Alecia Coglianese, her life mattered.
Kim supported: Demand Congress Pass the SEVER Act: End Fentanyl Poisoning and Cut Off Cartels"Hydromorphone produced similar subjective and physiological effects as heroin, but was more potent than heroin." Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › PM...
Dilaudid, a painkiller prescribed which people can take home 30 days supply worth, more potent than heroin, people can get a prescription that day from a doctor and go home and take it. Why cant someone prescribed methadone take their dose of methadone? We are physically dependent. Why make it harder to access the medication necessary for my body to function normally, because i got addicted to the very pharmaceutical narcotic dilaudid and decided i didnt want to take it forever, and had no other option than to get on methadone. Why can someone be prescribed something like that but we cant take our daily needed medication like everyone else? It just makes it harder to find jobs, harder to get YOUR MEDICINE THAT KEEPS YOU JUST ABLE TO EVEN GET OUT OF BED!.... Like do i actually need to say more!?!? Send this to congress now! This is Insanity barbarian toddler control! We are grown adults! If everybody could have access to their methadone daily like any other prescription without having TO ACTUALLY NOT BE ABLE TO WORK ANY JOB that starts at 5 am, or if you cant get to the clinic on a break, live to far away..i cannot imagine how hard it is for the poor people who dont have cars and going through such a hellish state all because the government thinks we are babies and cant take our medicine like we should! We ARENT TRYING TO DIE OR KILL OURSELVES. i EARNED my ONLY two weeks worth of take homes after TWO WHOLE YEARS OF GOING EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I passed EVERY URINALYSIS. i NEVER SKIPPED. I NEVER MISSED A BOTTLE. NEVER BROKE CODE. it took me TWO YEARS GOING DAILY , turning down job after job after job because i couldnt work around getting to the clinic without a vehicle and still being able to make it to my job on time due to the barbarian regulations. We will look back at how we treat addicts like we look at knights and roman gladiators. Barabaric. We are human beings, not idiots. Just because we got physically dependent and need something doesnt mean we cant responsible dose our selves. Its SUCH a hindersnce and causes so much more unemployment and loss of jobs, livelihoods , chance to LIVE LIFE and TRAVEL, all because we are CHAINED like prisoners to a damn city methadone clinic. Its the biggest drug dealers on earth! FREE OUR MEDICATION!
alex supported: A Vision to Free MethadoneMethadone needs to be more available. 2-3 hour drive is unrealistic for most people. No wonder people are over-dosing left and right. It's way easier to get a fix of something that will probably kill them. I take Subutex, which is a far cry from methadone which has been out for much longer. I still have cravings. Clean 3 years. Would like to switch to methadone but don't have a driver's license to make the 3 hour drive every morning. It needs to be more accessible. Wake up everyone. Methadone works.
Christopher supported: A Vision to Free MethadoneAfter losing my cousin to an overdose in 2023 I have had to answer some really tough questions from her youngest child. When he asked me if he could have done something to save her, it broke my heart. He was lucky to not be there when it happened - other children aren't so lucky (if you can really call it luck). They need effective solutions that are simple to use, even though we don't ever want them to have to be "the one" who has to respond. There are endless examples of scenarios like this which means there is no one size fits all or a perfect response. We need whatever options that allow for someone to be able to respond when a person is dying from an overdose. Whether they are a child or an adult, trained or not. Period. People don't need to die because we told them they could only get this tool or that tool when there are a spectrum of options available.
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