Opioid vending machine opens in Vancouver

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What a brilliant idea. :confused:
 
Interesting that it’s just dilaudid rather than a variety of medications based on the prescription

Almost a one stop shop to replace pharmacists. Insert prescription, meds dispensed below.
 
I dig it. Junkies don't keep office hours. If you want to do a clinic to service getting them off needles, it should be available when they are looking to score if you want it to be effective.
 
The Guardian; a News Source You (America) Can Trust.

Once again, they are asking for your support:
"America faces an epic choice...
... this year, and the results will define the country for a generation. These are perilous times. Over the last three years, much of what the Guardian holds dear has been threatened – democracy, civility, truth. This US administration is establishing new norms of behaviour. Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace. Truth is being chased away..."

EDIT: I also noticed that, while the article pointed out the junkie had to biometrically ID hisself (fingerprints, facial recognition, etc., I suppose), they made no mention of who pays for his daily 3-hit dose. Your Universal Health Care Canadian Dollar at Work.
 
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The Guardian; a News Source You (America) Can Trust.

Once again, they are asking for your support:
"America faces an epic choice...
... this year, and the results will define the country for a generation. These are perilous times. Over the last three years, much of what the Guardian holds dear has been threatened – democracy, civility, truth. This US administration is establishing new norms of behaviour. Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace. Truth is being chased away..."

EDIT: I also noticed that, while the article pointed out the junkie had to biometrically ID hisself (fingerprints, facial recognition, etc., I suppose), they made no mention of who pays for his daily 3-hit dose. Your Universal Health Care Canadian Dollar at Work.
Apparently they were never paying attention and only noticing bad things when it's the Rs doing them...
With that kind of obvious slant, I hope they fold.
 
Nothing more determined then a crackhead looking for a fix. I Can’t wait to see the first video of an stolen backhoe smashing into the wall and dragging this thing out into the darkness only to be found a day later busted open and stripped dry
 
Giving addicts a drug 2x as strong will not help with overdosing. Enabling them is not the answer.
 
Giving addicts a drug 2x as strong will not help with overdosing. Enabling them is not the answer.

I guarantee you taking a dilaudid pill is not as strong as slamming heroin. Article is misleading. The hydromorphone will likely stave off H withdrawals and prevent them from robbing/stealing to support their 6-8 hour illicit fix. Half of that time for Fentanyl. They have socialized medicine so their taxes are paying for it anyways.

I would imagine the medication in the machine is a tamper resistant medication which makes cooking/injecting it very hard. Read: hard, not impossible.

Full disclosure here: I’m a chronic pain patient. I went through withdrawals back in early 2011 after being on 120mg morphine daily for four months post operative from a back surgery. I wasn’t stepped down on a healthy 3-6 month taper, just over one week and no more. I experienced excruciating withdrawals with not even a Valium to help. Looking back, I should’ve checked into a hospital.

After about a year of all the tests and trials you can imagine, it was determined the surgery fixed several problems but created another: long term, incurable pain. I have more experience with these prescription medications than even some pharmacy employees. I know what most, if not all, of these prescription based drugs are capable of


I have mixed emotions about needle exchanges and safe injection sites. On one hand I feel like it encourages the consumption of illegal drugs and money is spent that shouldn’t be on that stuff. On the other hand, the money/costs that ARE saved with reducing the numbers of people who can’t pay who come in for treatment with infections, hep C, and all sorts of other issues does add up

I don’t have the right answer for any of this. But ignoring the issue won’t fix it
 
WRITTEN BY AN IDIOT - Number one, it is just an automated pharmacy. You HAVE TO HAVE A PRESCRIPTION. What moron would by dope from a dealer if they had a prescription. THis article is written by a complete retard. This kiosk has nothing to do with drug addicts overdosing.
 
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