During last week’s public safety forum, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tweeted about police commissioner Kevin Davis’s news that in the past week, Baltimore police “saved 2 would-be overdose deaths w/ Naloxone treatments.”
These interventions were possible thanks to OSI-funded police training with naloxone in recent months. OSI-Baltimore program associate Rachel Abdullahi explained OSI’s support for naloxone as a crucial life-saving drug in a blog post titled, “A systematic and compassionate response to addiction.”
This week we also saw this story from the Chicago Tribune, which reports that naloxone ” was credited with saving dozens of lives in Chicago last week after heroin suspected of being tainted with the powerful painkiller fentanyl produced more than 80 overdoses.”