TV news has been full of stories about the Opiod Epidemic in the US. 63,600 opiod deaths in 2017 caused Life Expectancy in America to drop for the second straight year.
But -
Nobody dies of an overdose on TV shows any more!
First responders - EMTs, Firemen, Policemen, and last night on Hawaii Five-O, even the Coroner - always have a supply of Naloxone (Narcan) or some similar miracle drug which they administer in the nick of time. The druggie is revived and back to normal within minutes with no visible side-effects.
This strikes me as a very dangerous precedent. Someone needs to explain to the writers of TV dramas that not everybody carries antidotes, and in the real world, people are actually dying of overdoses every day.
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