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Chicago Jail Handing Out Naloxone to Inmates Upon Release

posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the lives-matter dept.

takyon writes:

The Cook County Jail in Chicago, IL has trained hundreds of inmates on how to use the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone, and has given doses out to inmates upon release:

Cook County now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to combatting the nation's opioid epidemic.

Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the country, has trained about 900 inmates how to use naloxone nasal spray devices since last summer and has distributed 400 of them to at-risk men and women as they got out. The devices can undo the effects of an opiate overdose almost immediately and are identical to those used by officers in many of the country's law enforcement agencies.

[...] It is too soon to gauge the effectiveness of Cook County's program, but Dart said anecdotal evidence suggests that the kits have saved lives, including a man who was arrested again, returned to jail, and told of how a friend he had trained to use the kit had done so when he overdosed. In New York City, more than 4,000 kits have been distributed to friends and relatives of inmates at the city's jail at Rikers Island since the program there was launched in 2014.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:21PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:21PM (#547345)

    I guess you've never had a family member struggle with addiction, or fall on hard times.

    Junkies are not the problem, they should only be a problem to themselves. But add the drug war and now you have tons of self-created problems. Answer: legalize drugs, spend taxes on rehab / support programs.

    But most likely you're one of the many brainwashed fools who believe the war on drugs is a good thing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:31PM (#547352)

    Piss off. Your sister is probably a crack whore.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:40PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:40PM (#547355)

      And your father smelt of elderberries.

      I see the shithead troll is back, my guess is an angsty teenager trying to achieve EDGE LORD status.

      Keep going kiddo, one day you also can be reviled and picked up by the FBI.

      • (Score: 2, Troll) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:40AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:40AM (#547448) Journal

        I see the shithead troll is back, my guess is an angsty teenager trying to achieve EDGE LORD status.
        Keep going kiddo, one day you also can be reviled and picked up by the FBI. may use the jmorris2nd nick with pride

        FTFY.

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