I'm all for people getting access to Narcan / naloxone by whatever means makes sense for them. Being fully informed is good too. This can end up a tag on your insurance that will plausibly subject you to at least some level of discrimination usually reserved for opioid users, and injection drug users. If someone is fine with that, by all means go the pharmacy route.

But I suppose if nothing else, getting Narcan over the counter you'll know if your local pharmacy is actually competent at doing this. And maybe it saves someone else the trouble, if they have no idea what they're doing. Living in Philly, me trying this a couple years ago and being turned down at two pharmacies (before being heavily sideyed at a third) was a bit of a wakeup call as to the barriers often involved in this type of access. Even in the most highest overdose death rate large city in the country.