Overdose Epidemic

  • Hello all,


    It might have been suggested before to add an Overdose Call into the game.


    Well where I live (Vancouver B.C. Canada) I'm getting sick and tired of all these people dying in my city from overdoses because my government turns a blind eye on it.


    We should get them the help they need but my government does not care.


    If the developers can put this call into the game to say that Vancouver B.C. needs to wake up and see there is an overdose epidemic, maybe they will wake up.


    I'm sorry I have to share this but I'm tired of sitting back and watching nothing happened.

  • The heroin epidemic is actually affecting a significant portion of the West, and it seems to be attributable to the over-prescription of opiate pain relievers.
    We'll look at putting opiate overdoses into the game, but I doubt we'll politicize it like you're suggesting.


    Out of curiosity, does your service have Narcan/Naloxone?

  • In the U.S. my state of Ohio is number one for Heroin overdoses. Number one that's unacceptable. This may or may not go off topic but I feel that unlike B.C. handling it the way they are handling it I feel as though my governor John Kasich is doing a great job at trying to lower overdoses in the state of Ohio he even came up with a new way of fighting it too by passing Senate Bill 319 which is a new law set to go in effect on April 4th 2017 the new law, Senate Bill 319, sponsored by Sen. John Eklund (R., Chardon), expands access to the anti-overdose drug naloxone to entities such as homeless shelters, halfway houses, schools, and treatment centers that deal with populations at high risk of heroin overdose. It also offers civil immunity to law enforcement officers who carry and use naloxone.
    “We have spent a billion dollars on this issue. A billion dollars…,” Mr. Kasich said. “Thank God we expanded Medicaid, because that Medicaid money is helping to rehab people…There are going to be more tools to come, but we’re not going to defeat this just from the top down.”
    He made the argument that the real answer is in talking to youths on ball fields and schools about drugs and to stop prescribing so many prescription painkillers in the first place.
    The new law closes an exemption in current law that allows sole proprietors in private practice — doctors, veterinarians, dentist, and other health care professionals—to directly distribute medications to patients without oversight from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. Such professionals distributed 6.5 million doses, including 3 million doses of opiates, in 2015.
    The bill also ends Ohio’s status as one of eight states that do not require pharmacy technicians, who have been blamed for roughly a third of all drug theft cases over the last three years, to register with the state pharmacy board. The move subjects them to uniform criminal background checks and competency requirements.
    “Four out of five people who were addicted to heroin because they were first addicted to prescription narcotics…,” said Rep. Robert Sprague (R., Findlay), who sponsored a similar bill in the House. “The heroin addiction is really just a continuation of that addiction that started with those pills.”
    The number of prescriptions written and shopping by patients to find doctors willing to write those prescriptions are down. But the number of addiction-related deaths continues to climb.
    The law will take effect in 90 days. Source: Toledo Blade Publish date Jan. 4, 2017 updated at 5:28 p.m. Title of article: Kasich signs bills to fight heroin epidemic. Anyways if I went off topic I'm sorry but anyways I would love to see this call in the game.

  • I don't try to get politics involved in matters.


    Yes our Paramedics do cary Naloxone but only certain Paramedics can use it.


    Our problem is thanks to fentanyl being placed with our drugs on the street.


    I just hope the developers put in overdose as a medical call in the game. Not because of the politics but because of the education about what drugs can do to you.

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