Heroin overdose cure: It exists, but how do you get it?

[Jacob(smooth)]

There is a real problem with basing medical provision on merit. Who decides, and on what basis? Shell used the example of a broken leg, what if the broken leg was caused by doing an extreme sport? What of sedentary people? Why should we pay for their angioplasty?

It doesn't really work. The only way to dish out healthcare is based on clinical need. And even that is fraught with complications!

Also, respectfully, I don't think that most addicts can "just suck it up". Most addicts known, and I've known quite a few, would be no more capable of doing that than setting their own broken leg. And setting your own broken leg might just be less painful than going complete cold turkey from heroin without any medical help. To say addiction is "painful" is grossly understating it.

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"Should we shuffle all people who harm themselves due to controllable factors to the back of the line? Because, I don't ever want to be the person who makes that decision."

Death panels, Individualistic socialists, drugs. This thread has got it all.

And the fatties and druggies are already sent to the back of the line in terms of organ transplants, are they not?

That's based on pure pragmatism, not merit. If you have one liver and the choice of a procedure with a 60%chance of success or one with a 40% chance of success you pick the former. No distinction is made over whether they are fat because of thyroid problems or fat because of pie.