Most importantly, you have to communicate with someone in your life that wants to help you and understand you, but if you have someone you can rely on (a sponsor, an understanding friend) then you need to turn Canary on every time you use.
The event I’m talking about happened December 2019. I hadn’t used for five years and knew I was going to relapse. I turned on Canary before injecting and it asked me to add a phone number for someone to reach out to. From what I understand, they received a text alerting them to be near their phone in case something happens. After about five or ten mins, I became unresponsive and the person I set was alerted. They came over ASAP and found me blue and not breathing. She also had some simple overdose training and knew to get my tongue out of my throat and try to wake me up to get me to breath. The EMTs arrived and managed to get me up and into an ambulance. A few hours and rounds of Narcan later and I was released.
I would have died if it wasn’t for Canary. Thank you for making it and having it on here. I wish there were more reviews and ratings.