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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
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Jan 26, 2024, 10:54 AM
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This is an issue im so torn about.
On one hand these could potentially save hundreds of young lives.
On the other they could unintentionally enable further opioid abuse and be a catalyst of hundreds more overdoses.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
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Jan 26, 2024, 11:01 AM
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I hope there's no way it will save hundreds of lives on the CU campus. If it does drug tests should become part of the application process. Just sayin'.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 11:05 AM
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i was more speaking in a general sense. These kits are popping up all over the country in schools, vending machines, and other public places.
Feels like a bandaid solution to a gushing wound of a problem.
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Yes. Americans seem to really love drugs.***
Jan 26, 2024, 1:12 PM
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 10:59 AM
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Wow I was totally unaware this was a problem on campus, but better to be safe than sorry.
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Does there need to be a problem >- remember that
Jan 26, 2024, 1:17 PM
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they had installed tampon dispensers in men's bathrooms.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 11:02 AM
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This could save lives so I'm all for it but it's a sad time in America that this even has to be done.
I admit I don't know what the answer is to combat this but I do know that decriminalization is NOT the answer....the drug epidemic and mental health crisis along with immigration will break this country and I fear it will be sooner than later
Hope I'm wrong
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 11:28 AM
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I think part of the answer is shutting down a lot of the pain clinics that are really shams for pushing opiod pain killers to anyone who walks in the door.
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The Sackler family should be in prison
Jan 26, 2024, 11:39 AM
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but they made billions and got off pretty much scot-free.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
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Jan 26, 2024, 11:28 AM
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This is fantastic. Narcan saves lives. Period.
Clemson and the surrounding area has had somewhat of an opioid epidemic for years. Great news to see this.
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Re: SC has one of the highest overdose death rates in the US
Jan 26, 2024, 11:42 AM
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sadly I knew many of those numbers across many of those years.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 11:39 AM
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Im my day it was a BC powder. But this is progress.
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This is great to see!
Jan 26, 2024, 11:46 AM
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I'm sorry it's a needed, but given the opioid epidemic, it's much needed.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 11:56 AM
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Everyone makes their own decisions everyday. What time to wake up, what to eat, etc
They also make decisions on whether or not to drink alcohol, smoke or dip or chew tobacco, to do drugs or not. It’s an individual choice, not something taxpayers should have to participate in
This may be an unpopular opinion but it’s the truth
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 12:04 PM
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This sort of logic implies that we should stop funding ambulances for car accidents. It's the same thing as saying that because someone decided to get behind the wheel of a car, so they should assume all the risk and taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for their help or safety if they have a wreck.
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Well they had to do something
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Jan 26, 2024, 12:36 PM
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With all the money they are saving by not putting tampons in men’s restrooms.
Just kidding. This is a great thing. Unless we are going to get serious about stopping fentanyl from entering the country, things like this will continue to be needed. I know people can overdose from opiates that don’t contain fentanyl, but that particular poison has made accidental overdoses extremely more common.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 12:40 PM
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Recently given a prescription of oxycodone and the pharmacist tried to get me to purchase the opioid inhaler emergency kit at $91 that was not covered by insurance.
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No kits in Earle Hall, I see. Dey don't care none atall too, about the pore old
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Jan 26, 2024, 12:48 PM
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Chemical Engineering undergrad students. May a distillation column fall upon the heads of those neglecting this most important part of the student population.
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Re: Clemson University installs opioid emergency kits across campus
Jan 26, 2024, 1:21 PM
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I may have missed it but has there been a single news article about an overdose on campus which required Narcan?
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