Philadelphia Drug Users' Union

I witnessed something this week that baffled me and also annoyed the hell outta me. In two medical institutions I seen people get threatened with the use of Narcan because they were nodding out. There are a couple things wrong with that in my eyes anyway. 1.) As an RN (medical professional)....you should have enough sense to know that you u should only narcan someone when they are not breathing. 2.) Narcan should not be used as a punishment! It is a tool to save someone's life, not a punishment because someone else is uncomfortable with the fact that your nodding and obviously very high! People wonder why there is such a big debate about the use of narcan because 70% of the people in posession of it is using it wrong! That's why the PDUU is on the streets everyday teaching people how to use this life saving tool correctly.....

How can one be expected to understand what gives one human being the right to approach another human being equal - in all actual ways - demand that they stop altering their consciousness, which is in the right of every human who lives in the United States according to the founding documents? If they do not comply that equal human can exert a nonexistent power onto the other person and forcibly make them stop. As if that is not consequence enough, the human who perceives they have more power will proceed to change every single aspect of the other person’s life in a very real physical way for moments to potentially years, or even the remainder of that person’s
existence. This is the most far fetched idea of justice one could have ever conceived of. It is our duty as people who use drugs to demand a discontinuance of such egregious treatment of people based on actions that are merely misunderstood just like golf to someone not from the United States, or using water not toilet paper. This is the essence of cultural relativism. It’s not something that should destroy one’s life but be discussed as light conversation, because truthfully almost everyone does it.