The CDC is reporting a decreasing trend in opioid use but unfortunately that is not happening in South Dakota. Does making naloxone (Narcan, the drug that immediately reverses an opioid overdose) easily available encourage drug users to keep using? Is this a moral or ethical dilemma? Why or why not?
Answer: The opioid overdose causes many deaths in people. Naloxone is used as antagonist medication for the opioids. Naloxone acts by binding to the receptors of the opioids quickly and hence prevents heroin from activation.
This drug is easily available and cheap. But this makes people to get addicted to the opioids. This is a kind of ethical dilemma because it is important to stop or prevent the opioids addiction or the opioids overdose. But if there is no preventive methods will be employed, people will continue to use the naloxone for the opioids. Hence withdrawal of addiction becomes difficult.
The CDC is reporting a decreasing trend in opioid use but unfortunately that is not happening in South Dakota. Does maki...
The CDC is reporting a decreasing trend in opioid use but unfortunately that is not happening in South Dakota. Does making naloxone (Narcan, the drug that immediately reverses an opioid overdose) easily available encourage drug users to keep using? Is this a moral or ethical dilemma? Why or why not?