American opioid crisis part 3

Is New Zealand prepared or able to cope with an impending opioid crisis or are we doomed???? So far NZ has escaped the opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives overseas, but should that change we are grossly underprepared. So what is holding up the supply and availability of the overdose reversing medication Narcan????? NZ appears not much closer to widespread availability and distribution of the life saving drug Narcan ( Naloxone) which reverses the opioid overdoses, despite years from lobbying agencies and harm reduction experts and efforts from the ministry of health ( MOH). 4yrs ago opioid overdoses in NZ were 40 lives a year, last year that number jumped to 156. There is a risk NZ will most likely face an opioid crisis like America, Canada and Europe are currently experiencing. Overseas there are tens of thousands of deaths caused largely by prescription opioids, heroin, and the alteration of other drugs like MDMA and meth with a powerful opioid called fentan...