OPIOID CRISIS REALITY CHECK: IT’S THE NARCAN REDUCING DEATHS FUELED BY EXPERT MEDICAL CURE FAILURE
As in Wisconsin, Ohio, all locales consistently – opioid overdose deaths drop dramatically in Florida counties due entirely to emergence of targeted effective naloxone campaigns, while medical cures continue to drive high-risk use and overdose
by Clark Miller
Published May 16, 2025
The local headline says it all.
That dramatic drop was predictable once the Florida locales focused resources on getting Narcan into communities where needed, along with trainings as in other locales consistently.
And predictable that high risk “drug use” and overdose continue to mount.
The number of people who died from an opioid in Palm Beach County in 2024 was down 46% from 2023, something non-profit leaders credit to Narcan, the overdose reversal drug.
“At the end of the day we want to save as many lives as possible, but we want to ultimately restore lives,” Alex Price, the CEO of Project Opioid said. “It’s not enough just to save lives, but it must start there.” ..
Price says while the number of overdose deaths is declining, the number of people overdosing continues to increase as does the number of fentanyl overdoses.
[Emphasis added]
Predictable because high-risk opioid use, nonfatal overdose, and required emergency naloxone reversals have been rising dramatically.
Not fatal opioid overdoses, because they’re increasingly being prevented by desperate, intensive, targeted, successful campaigns to distribute and train on use of naloxone.
Everywhere. As in –
But not in locations that are the exceptions that prove that lethal rule, like Nevada, where lack of effective naloxone distribution and use, along with reckless dispensing of the common street currency for fentanyl (also known as buprenorphine, the “proven” medical cure for opioid use) combine to keep opioid OD deaths mounting.
And in the exception San Francisco, where an intensive, successful naloxone campaign finally dropped opioid fatal ODs, lagging other locales, opioid deaths now rising again predictably with intensive, publicly-funded dispensing of the common street currency for fentanyl under the direction of medical addiction treatment experts.
That clear, consistent pattern establishing that opioid fatal overdoses have declined only and entirely due to naloxone campaigns – with the associated, unavoidable conclusion that expert gold standard treatments are fueling high-risk use and deaths – necessitates lies. The alternative is to face truths that must not be exposed.
Lies like in this recent press release,
CONCORD, N.H. – New data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shows that opioid overdose deaths in New Hampshire are down 35% from 2023 to 2024, outpacing the national rate of decline over the same period.
Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte and state leaders praised New Hampshire as a model for the nation in fighting the drug crisis through law enforcement interdiction efforts and prevention and treatment initiatives led by state health officials.
“Thanks to our state’s coordinated approach to fighting the drug crisis, New Hampshire is a model for the nation in bringing down fatal overdose deaths,” said Governor Ayotte. “We will build on this progress and continue to be vigilant by strengthening our drug interdiction efforts through Operation Granite Shield and Northern Shield while supporting those in recovery with investments in our Community Mental Health Centers and Recovery Friendly Workplaces. Together, we’ll fight to keep dangerous drugs off our streets and give a hand up to our citizens seeking treatment for substance use disorders.”
“The significant declines in fatal overdoses demonstrate that New Hampshire’s all-hands-on-deck commitment is effectively addressing the opioid addiction and overdose crisis,” said DHHS Commissioner Lori Weaver. “The Doorways established an organized infrastructure that makes it easy for people in New Hampshire to get access to the care and treatment they need in their own communities. By working to reduce stigma, increasing access to community-based treatment, and implementing a comprehensive, statewide response, New Hampshire is recognized as a national leader in addressing the addiction crisis and a model for other states to follow.”
“I’m pleased that we continue to reduce overdose deaths, which is a testament to the dedication and collaboration of our public health teams, law enforcement and substance abuse treatment partners,” said Department of Safety Commissioner Robert L. Quinn. “While this progress is promising, we must continue to prioritize our collaborative enforcement efforts across the state to ensure we prevent these substances from entering into our communities.”
[emphasis added]
law enforcement interdiction efforts
prevention and treatment initiatives
drug interdiction efforts
recovery
Community Mental Health
Recovery Friendly Workplaces
treatment for substance use
care and treatment
reduce stigma
community-based treatment
public health
law enforcement
substance abuse treatment
Thanks to those! To the failed and established-as-harmful and evidence-free systems of harm that have been increasingly publicly funded and provided as “treatment” or intervention, or substance use policy over decades of increasingly worsening lethal substance use crises.
Those failed approaches became inexplicably, suddenly effective? After decades of funding and implementation with drug crises worsening as a result?
Became miraculously effective after decades of serving as “gold standard” treatments, policy and approaches to substance use epidemics that worsened in response to their implementation and provision? Became somehow effective unexpectedly, astonishingly effective for the first time, coincidentally at just the same time that intensive, desperate, harm-reducing naloxone campaigns have been – by direct evidence and incontrovertibly – dramatically dropping opioid overdose deaths for the first time in decades?
Right.
This is high idiocy, lethal idiocy, the pathological idiocy soothingly messaged and celebrated in the idiocracy driving lethal epidemics.
It’s been predictable that high risk opioid use and fentanyl overdose would continue to climb, because that persistent worsening of the crisis is what generated the need for desperate, intensive naloxone campaigns against the predictable harm of dispensing abused, addictive opioids as if they provided benefit.
Predictable with each new disproving outcome, each secondary analysis, each new lie, each funding of lethal cluelessness, each new celebrated idiocy, each overdose death.
Predictable because the same trusted expert class, public institutions and watchdog media now assuring you of the effectiveness of their opioid cures gave you opioids for chronic pain, are responsible for generation of the crisis, for a depression epidemic fueled by SSRIs for that non-medical condition, gave you vaping to end smoking, and a COVID epidemic with lies to cover harm worsened by their responses.
You thought this time you were getting the truth?
Oh yeah … by the way, is there something about these two graphics, juxtaposed, that seems meaningful somehow?
Maybe it’s just me.
