My last question is for the colleagues at the Vancouver Fire Fighters' Union. Again, I agree naloxone is a band-aid, but when someone's bleeding you need a band-aid. Some jurisdictions have started to use police services for different forms of first response. Some American jurisdictions have had police carrying external defibrillators in their cars, calling them on 911 calls to a collapsed person. There is also talk of training police in the use of inter-nasal naloxone. Would the participation of the police in this, particularly with our new law when police are not automatically giving possession sentences now, be helpful in dealing with this disaster until we can get it under control?
On October 18th, 2016. See this statement in context.