Maybe this is pedantic? But it’s kinda disingenuous to say, “You can’t self-administer naloxone when you need it.”
1. No mode of consuming opioids has immediate bioavailability
2. Nlx has a 60-90 minute half life
I don’t know what the better language to describe this would be,
but if someone was to know that they’ve consumed an amount of opioids that could/would send them into OD, a window of time certainly exists where you can self administer. Of course it does. And someone in this circumstance WOULD “need it”, even if asymptomatic so far.
However: that hypothetical is really the only instance where I can think of that applying.
It WOULD NOT apply to someone exposed to a route of admin that doesn’t exist, like skin contact (unless patch, and it’s been hours&). Or breathing air near fent.
Just wish there were better ways to refute this stuff which don’t rely on untrue absolutes, even if the exceptions would be rare. The exceptions make the absolute false. Sorry. They just do.
I do have a way of sidestepping this, though: cops are wrong BECAUSE THEY’RE COPS
..I mean, I know that’s not gonna win every argument. But many of these aren’t even arguments worth entertaining.
Put that energy into finding+ building with the many people who know cops are full of shit before they even open their mouths. So much more useful AND rewarding.
