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I'm not sure that assisting people to treat bleeding themselves without medical supervision is unambiguously saving lives; many of those people would have been saved if they had sought medical treatment instead of self-aid, and I don't see any data about how many died attempting self-aid that could have been saved if they had sought medical attention.

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Very droll. But band-aids don't have side effects. Naloxone does. For instance:[1]

> a reversal of opiate effects achieved too rapidly may induce nausea, vomiting, sweating, tremor, tachycardia, increased BP, seizures, ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation, pulmonary edema, and cardiac arrest, which may result in death.

http://www.drugs.com/monograph/naloxone-hydrochloride.html

Those are not really side-effects of Naloxone, they are side-effects of reversing the effect of opiates. So if an addict were to quit an opiate addiction cold turkey, they would experience some (or very rarely, all) of the effects you listed. If you give Naloxone to someone without opiates in their system, they wouldn't experience those effects. What Naloxone does is kick opiates off of opiate receptors in the body, which instantly puts the addict into a state of opiate withdrawal.

Not having Naloxone on hand also has a guaranteed side-effect: death. That makes its side effects irrelevant.

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