Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:32:42.000Z
[PSA] IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO USES OPIOIDS OR HEROIN FOR ANY REASON, CLICK HERE replurking is also v good
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Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:33:29.000Z
August 31st is/was International Overdose Awareness Day
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:35:03.000Z
Nikki Sixx had a really good show about it tonight, you can find it on sixxsense.iheartmedia.co...
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Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:37:17.000Z
it's fairly easy to use and in some areas, subsidized
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:38:19.000Z
THERE IS NO SHAME IN OBTAINING NARCAN. ANYONE WHO TRIES TO SHAME YOU DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SAVING LIVES
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:39:11.000Z
Get a few of them, keep it in your home, your purse or backpack, your car, your job.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:40:32.000Z
As messed up as the opioid sitch is, it's honestly prudent to have it handy even if you personally do not use opioids.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:42:01.000Z
while we're on the harm reduction topic, North American Syringe Exchange Network Directory of Syringe Exch... lists needle exchange programs
Lord Zedd
2017-09-01T06:42:44.000Z
(wave) I use opiods for chronic pain. when I got my oxycontin filled for the first time, the pharmacist asked if I had Narcan. I said no, so he wrote me a script and filled it then and there. Met carries one doser and so do I because, along with lots of pain problems, I have severe OCD
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:42:59.000Z
if you are trans and giving yourself shots, you can take in your old needles for disposal and get new, sterile, safe needles
Lord Zedd
2017-09-01T06:43:09.000Z
that means once in a while my brain tells me to do really really stupid shit
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:44:05.000Z
often they give out needles with built in filters, so if you have questionable quality product, you have less risk of getting something grody into your boat
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:44:19.000Z
*body, not boat.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:46:51.000Z
yeah, even if you take a small amount, Vicodin or smth, a lot of contributing factors can push the plasma levels kind of high
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:47:26.000Z
there's no set ceiling for opioids, except "when your respiratory drive fails"
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:48:04.000Z
you just stop breathing because your body no longer gives a shit about getting rid of CO2
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:48:42.000Z
and it's not easy to predict when or where that point is, especially if you already have a tolerance
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:50:22.000Z
ALSO: 775-784-8090 IS A NATIONWIDE, 24/7/365 CRISIS HOTLINE
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:50:58.000Z
OR YOU CAN TEXT "Answer" to 839863
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:53:40.000Z
also the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:54:07.000Z
or 1-800-SUICIDE
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:54:24.000Z
which gets you a trained crisis counselor
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:56:15.000Z
or text "HOME" to 741741 for the crisis text line, which I personally have used twice and it's been super helpful
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:56:45.000Z
in addition to being hella discreet, since you don't have to worry about people overhearing you
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T06:58:32.000Z
my background: I've been severely depressed since I was 12, and it took me leaving rough drafts of suicide notes on my mom's pillow to finally get help
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:00:35.000Z
idk if anyone else on here knew her, but if you were into the Naruto LJRP scene back in 2005 and on, you might remember Sam. She played Itachi in a bunch of places, usually off her best friend Courtney's Sasuke
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:01:53.000Z
She OD'd on I think aspirin, and never woke up. Courtney ended up being her PoA because her family was a mess.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:02:41.000Z
Don't EVER make your best friend choose when to stop life support
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:03:24.000Z
I still can't forgive my ex for taking me out of going back to Dallas to say goodbye one last time.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:03:33.000Z
*talking
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:07:24.000Z
I also spent something like four years living alone with my mom after my dad told me about her pill problem
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:08:26.000Z
She'd come home from work Friday night, go to her room, and would not re-emerge until sometime Sunday
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:09:20.000Z
I'd joke about it in chat with my friends, about going into her room and making sure she was still breathing.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:10:31.000Z
it's not a joke. I would walk up quietly and put a few fingers in front of her nose and watch her chest for breathing.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:11:07.000Z
the only reason I didn't take her pulse was because I didn't know how
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:11:56.000Z
it's probably extremely lucky that she was caught and fired eventually, because it forced her to admit it was a problem and go to rehab
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:12:23.000Z
I'm reasonably certain she'd be dead by now otherwise.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:13:14.000Z
"but what about chronic pain", you ask
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:14:03.000Z
dude. I know what you mean. I remember that desperation to make it stop hurting, even a little, even for a while.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:15:51.000Z
I was on tramadol for a long time for my fibromyalgia, and it was the only thing that remotely touched the pain, until someone actually decided to run blood work
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:17:10.000Z
I'm pretty certain it's not fibro anymore, but early-onset lupus exacerbated by immense stress and burnout.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:19:20.000Z
Plaquenil has done more for me than tramadol ever could, I'm on Flexeril and medical cannabis for the rest of it, and it's massively improved my quality of life
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:20:51.000Z
don't ever give up looking even after you're on pain meds. Medicine is constantly evolving and we are learning tons about everything, really, but including pain management.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:22:30.000Z
besides, opioids make you itchy and if you miss a dose it's horrible. fuck that. you have better things to do than claw at your skin while breathing manually
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:23:08.000Z
but until you can find something less dangerous that works for you:
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:24:17.000Z
carry Narcan everywhere. program crisis numbers into your speed dial (does that still exist?).
Lord Zedd
2017-09-01T07:24:51.000Z
contact lists exist and work just as well
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:25:01.000Z
reach out, because I can guarantee you that someone, somewhere, will miss you and be devastated by your death.
Lord Zedd
2017-09-01T07:25:04.000Z
I have several crisis lines in mine
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:26:08.000Z
even if it's just your favorite waitress somewhere, or the cashier at the grocery store, or your own medical providers
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:26:47.000Z
yes, even pharmacy staff. any time I heard a patient had died, it was crushingly sad.
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T07:29:28.000Z
I don't know what else to say, if there's even anything. If someone knows international suicide prevention hotlines, or what harm reduction is like outside of the US, please please add it here, and replurk it.
生霊
2017-09-01T07:31:41.000Z
Anyway I just typed all of that on my phone because it's a public plurk, so show me some appreciation by spreading the word
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:40:12.000Z
GREAT FUCKING TIMING one of my childhood internet friends (literally since I was 16) is in the hospital
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:41:09.000Z
she's been really depressed and stressed out lately, deleted everything off her Facebook, kept deleting everyone from the chat group
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:41:40.000Z
then readding a few hours later
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:43:03.000Z
anyway she was team mom p much and we were trying to raise money to help her or buy her something cool
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:43:41.000Z
and now she's in the hospital and I'm terrified she OD'd
Cat Herder
2017-09-01T09:44:54.000Z
like, I can provide evidence this is happening, there's no way I would fake this to hammer a point home
MON AMI 🌞
2017-09-01T16:48:24.000Z
good plurk OP, thank you for making it
Cat Herder
2017-09-02T05:18:58.000Z
yw, I hope any part of it, no matter how small, can help someone.
rιѕιng ѕυn
2017-09-02T07:20:32.000Z
luckily, my mother has a hazardous waste container she got from the drug store that I can put my needles in. she uses diabetic needle pens so.
rιѕιng ѕυn
2017-09-02T07:20:50.000Z
and before that her meter
rιѕιng ѕυn
2017-09-02T07:22:02.000Z
(I also recently found out that I could literally pay for my needle scripts because of how cheap it is)
生霊
2017-09-02T08:16:30.000Z
yeah, diabetic needles are marked up hella, but regular IM needles are like a quarter each here
生霊
2017-09-02T08:17:34.000Z
w/r/t sharps containers, you can use a hard plastic bottle
生霊
2017-09-02T08:17:57.000Z
just seal it tightly with tape when you're done with it.
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