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Originally Posted by chemgear
Apologies if I missed it, but I always see claims of sheer overdoses reversal numbers (that now include oxygen apparently).
But I never seem to see statistics regarding the number of unique people actually helped. Like for 3000 "overdose reversals" claimed in a year, is it just 15 unique people overdosing over and over again 200 times each? And if we don't have that statistic, why not?
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anecdotally one of my old foster kids (in his 30's now) told me he has overdosed 38 times in the last three or four years, those were as he put it, 'wake up looking at the inside of an ambulance overdoses', there were countless other minor OD's where someone gave him a shot of Narcan and he just sloughed it off.
His mum died of an OD three years ago, his dad was murdered by his uncle in a drunken drug fueled fight when he was 1 or 2 years old, he has had more close friends die in his teenage years than most Vietnam vets could claim.
The problem is his life has been, and is, so god damn awful and full of awful memories that he doesn't really care if he dies, that it would honestly be a relief for him, that the only thing that makes his life worth living is the temporary relief of getting high, it takes several years to get clean and put a better more bearable life together and that gap in between is too painful to contemplate.