I suspect there are a lot of root causes of the epidemic, and I'm in favor of curbing use of opiods in hospital settings as well as going after drug companies that oversell their shit. I don't pretend to have all the solutions, but doing nothing is only going to make things worse. I also support treating the users with some sympathy and providing law enforcement with that antidote thing I've heard about but can't remember the name of.
I believe you should get Narcan once and after that it should not be administered. Taxpayers should not have to support people who continue to drain it by being dredges of society. I know people who have been narcaned 7 times. At what point do we not realize they have had their wake up call and refused to care about it?
How would anyone know how many times they've been resuscitated? ---