Live Rescue: Abrupt Awakening (Season 1) | A&E

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2. So if they ADMITTEDLY say they're doing drugs why aren't people arrested??…😐🤔🤦‍♀️

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4. In real life fireman or lazy I'll consider it

5. This must have happened at the butt crack of dawn, huh? 😐

6. He was tryna gasp for ERRRR

7. That man is blessed to have a friend like that. And for the emt to be right there Bc now a days they would just drop him off and run instead of getting help

8. So sweet and caring. WHAT A FRIEND 🥺😊

9. The dude has a guardian angel, his friend. Saved his life.

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14. Amazing, from dead to jumping jacks with one shot!

15. That was amazing

16. My sister overdosed at a bar. She was drunk and took a bottle of pills trying to kill herself. Instead of anyone calling an ambulance they load her up in her car and drive her to our parents house. They knock on the door and tell my parents she had too much to drink. My dad couldn't get her in the house so he left her in the car to sleep it off. He woke up and saw she was still in the car so he called the ambulance. I still think my sister doesn't know it was dad who called the ambulance. I think she assumes someone called for one from the bar. Sad.

17. I always have time to light a cigarette while my friend is laying on the ground not breathing🙄

18. Stop doing drugs.

19. He is lucky he has friend who didn't ditch him somewhere.

20. Bruh!! Narcan is coming back from the dead. Straight up!!

21. Dude would have been dead as a door nail, thank god for ems.

22. Another dummy. I never thought about doing drugs in my whole life

23. That’s the kind of friend you need.

24. That's so crazy how they don't know what happened to them when they come out of it.

25. And would you believe there are people who are against making Narcan available to the general public and emergency responders?

    The (very wrong) belief is that if they know they have an antidote if they overdose, they'll feel more invulnerable and push their limits more and more recklessly. Safe in the knowledge that if they overdose, their buddy can just give em some Narcan and they'll be right as rain. At least, that's what the people who are against it believe.

    The truth is, as a former user myself and having known and talked to literally hundreds, if not over a thousand different users, and being really close with friends with many of them over a period of about 20 years, I can tell you narcan is the last thing an addict thinks about when they're using opioids.

    Most of the time they're just using for the sake of keeping the withdrawals at bay for a little bit longer so they can go a few more hours without feeling so terrible from withdrawals that one would actually contemplate suicide just to end the suffering of it. That's usually the first thought. Second thought, admittedly is to seek pleasure, but this isn't always the case.

    Once you've reached a point, your tolerance is so high that you simply don't get high from using anymore. Unless you take extremely high doses, which gets prohibitively expensive when you're doing it several times a day. Most addicts don't have the means to support such a habit. Which is what causes some to turn to crime in order to keep avoiding those withdrawals. So it becomes more about staving off the withdrawals so they can continue to feel halfway normal for a few more hours. And the longer you're on the stuff and the more you take, the worse this tolerance will get. And tolerance builds up really fast.

    To give you an idea of how fast exactly. Back in 2007 I got addicted to dilaudid (hydromorphone) which is a powerful opioid, usually reserved only for the most severe pain, like cancer. A regular dose to get high for me started at 3mg. After just 2 weeks of using it almost non-stop I was using 60mg at a time. Which I can assure you is more than enough to kill several grown men who have no tolerance. Needless to say, I stopped cold turkey after a few weeks of this and I couldn't get Or when I used oxy, I would notice tolerance starting to develop after just 3 days of binging on it. So it's something that can happen very quickly if you're taking large amounts on a regular basis.

26. Poor dude. I know he had a rough night. That puts you right into the worst withdrawals ever.

27. What a wonderful friend!

28. I couldnt help but laugh at the way they all shot up when he came to.

29. Being from Saint Louis this is a huge problem here, as well as in many many other places unfortunately. Thank God his friend went for help.

30. Mr innocent acts as if he's on same stuff. Slurring words

31. *Lights cigarette while friend is on the ground dying to breathe, literally *
    😂😂

32. Narcan is cheap boys

33. Let them die.

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