Ben Dunkle, who died of a heroin overdose, with his mother Aimee, who started Solace Foundation in southern California to distribute naloxone after his death.
Credit: the Dunkle family
Ben Dunkle died at the age of 20, abandoned in a carpark by panicked friends who had no idea how to save his life as he overdosed on heroin.
“I’m certain that if they had been carrying naloxone, they wouldn’t have run away,” said his mother, Aimee Dunkle.
After Ben’s death, Aimee made it a mission to get naloxone, an antidote that can bring overdosing opioid users back from the brink of death within minutes, into the hands of as many people as she could. In February she founded the Solace Foundation in southern California to distribute the naloxone among addicts, many of them homeless, their relatives and friends. She says the group has saved at least 365 lives.
But Dunkle said she could have saved more if it were not for the surging cost of the drug which has prompted accusations of pharmaceutical companies profiteering from […]
The biggest drug cartels in the world are government sanctioned corporations who will stop at nothing to reap profits. I have personally worked in pharma for a few years and found that most people involved in making the drugs are either well intentioned or indifferent. The folks who run the corps are immoral, deceitful and ruthless.
The Capitalist Hippocratic Oath: First, maximize profit