re: CVS to sell heroin overdose antidote

No I ain't. Everyone on earth knows the danger of heroin. So if someone is still dumb enough to OD on it, then frick em !

Is this true? And if so how? Is there some national junkie database?

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I've heard this leads to such bad withdrawals that the addicts immediately attempt to get high again

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You mean exactly what happens when you come down off of heroin anyway?

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Is this true? And if so how? Is there some national junkie database?

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It started last year I believe when a lot of the distributors of heroine were mixing fentanyl with the heroine and the junkies were dying like flies. Basically in like 14 states La i believe is one of them. The junky just presents to a pharmacy and asks for the narcan and the pharmacists fills the prescription under a prewritten Dr. name that has ok'ed it for our state.

They even teach them to inject the narcan into the shoulder and not into the heart contrarily to what pulp fiction taught us.

No they are called precipitated withdrawals and are ten times as bad as normal wd. The naloxone rips off anything attached to the opiate receptors where as if you were coming down normally the dope slowly comes off your receptors

I fully expected "Come Down" by Bush

Purdue Pharma paid $600 million in fines

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How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company

The state of Kentucky may finally get its deliverance. After more than seven years of battling the evasive legal tactics of Purdue Pharma, 2015 may be the year that Kentucky and its attorney general, Jack Conway, are able to move forward with a civil lawsuit alleging that the drugmaker misled doctors and patients about their blockbuster pain pill OxyContin, leading to a vicious addiction epidemic across large swaths of the state.

A pernicious distinction of the first decade of the 21st century was the rise in painkiller abuse, which ultimately led to a catastrophic increase in addicts, fatal overdoses, and blighted communities. But the story of the painkiller epidemic can really be reduced to the story of one powerful, highly addictive drug and its small but ruthlessly enterprising manufacturer.

On December 12, 1995, the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid analgesic OxyContin. It hit the market in 1996. In its first year, OxyContin accounted for $45 million in sales for its manufacturer, Stamford, Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. By 2000 that number would balloon to $1.1 billion, an increase of well over 2,000 percent in a span of just four years. Ten years later, the profits would inflate still further, to $3.1 billion. By then the potent opioid accounted for about 30 percent of the painkiller market. What's more, Purdue Pharma's patent for the original OxyContin formula didn't expire until 2013. This meant that a single private, family-owned pharmaceutical company with non-descript headquarters in the Northeast controlled nearly a third of the entire United States market for pain pills.

OxyContin's ball-of-lightning emergence in the health care marketplace was close to unprecedented for a new painkiller in an age where synthetic opiates like Vicodin, Percocet, and Fentanyl had already been competing for decades in doctors' offices and pharmacies for their piece of the market share of pain-relieving drugs. In retrospect, it almost didn't make sense. Why was OxyContin so much more popular? Had it been approved for a wider range of ailments than its opioid cousins? Did doctors prefer prescribing it to their patients?

During its rise in popularity, there was a suspicious undercurrent to the drug's spectrum of approved uses and Purdue Pharma's relationship to the physicians that were suddenly privileging OxyContin over other meds to combat everything from back pain to arthritis to post-operative discomfort. It would take years to discover that there was much more to the story than the benign introduction of a new, highly effective painkiller.
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They even teach them to inject the narcan into the shoulder and not into the heart contrarily to what pulp fiction taught us

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They were supposedly injecting adrenalin in Pulp Fiction not narcan (or whatever the brand name is)

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They were supposedly injecting adrenalin in Pulp Fiction not narcan (or whatever the brand name is)

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they were... i was gonna correct him on this, but forgot...

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company that first developed the pills lying to doctors and telling them people wouldn't get addicted

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like the other dude pointed out, it was OxyContin.... and this drug has become the poster boy for all of this, but it's not the real culprit.... OxyContin was not written all that often, and even if it was, we (pharmacists) never really filled it because we knew how bad the shite was being abused and plus the shite was really, really expensive to keep in stock....

the main culprit is hydrocodone... that's what's in Norco, but at one time, about 2 years ago, before it was changed to a CII, it was in Lortab, Lorcet, Vicodin, Vicodin ES, Vicodin HP, Norco, etc.... all of those were available in generic, so it was cheap for us to keep stocked, and doctors has, as you can see, plenty of options for patients, depending on their pain.... they wrote for it often, and usually for a lot longer than anyone needed to be on it... and the fact that it was not a CII meant that it didn't require a written script everytime it needed to be filled, and it could have refills put on the prescription, assisted in doctors writing/faxing/e-scribing the ever living shite out of it...

many of these addicts started with a legit prescription, then it advanced to dependence, to addiction, and now they are turning to the streets for their fix, and that's a whole 'nother ballgame when compared to abusing pharmaceuticals....