Inside Baltimore's radical plan to battle heroin overdoses

July 14, 2015

Baltimore's health commissioner wants everyone in the city to be trained to respond to a heroin overdose

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Inside Baltimore's radical plan to battle heroin overdoses

In a city often considered the country's heroin capital, Baltimore officials are floating plans to open 24-hour emergency addiction clinics and increase addiction services for prisoners and people in recovery. But the city is running into major financial obstacles that include the skyrocketing price of naloxone - sold as Narcan - a drug that can save the life of a person overdosing from heroin. In this excerpt from America Tonight, Adam May speaks with a recovering addict trying to get naloxone into more hands and city Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen, who wants everyone in the city to know how to use it.


 

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