Narcan
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On Narcan and the perception of care.
I was talking to someone recently about the availability of Narcan where we live (a college town in southern Indiana, population 80,000). Narcan is a medication that blocks opiate receptors. When given to someone who recently overdosed on heroin, fentanyl, or painkillers, Narcan can save their life. # In the lobby of the county jail,…
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On amusement parks, depression, and familiarity with death.
Some types of fun aren’t meant for everyone …
Albert Camus, amusement park, amusement parks, car crash, death, depression, execution, familiarity with death, Fyodor Dostoevsky, gun violence, heroin, heroin overdose, Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, Narcan, overdose, pardon, preventable death, psychology, psychology experiments, psychology of amusement parks, psychology studies, psychology study, Scarecrow Scrambler, Scramblers, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide, The Idiot, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scrambler -
On prayer.
Czeslaw Milosz wrote that “if there is no other shore / We will walk that aerial bridge all the same.”
AA, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aphrodite, Czeslaw Milosz, deities, God, healing, higher power, impulse control, jail, jail poetry, mythology, myths, naloxone, Narcan, odinism, On Prayer, opiates, opiod epidemic, poetry, prayer, prison, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, Robert Hass, teaching in jail, Thor, TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation


