On Wednesday evening, deputies and staff in the facility responded to two inmates in medical distress and found the two unconscious and “suffering from possible overdoses,” a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
But fellow inmates had already administered Naloxone — also known as Narcan — to those two people, preventing what could have been a “potential tragic outcome,” the release said.
The drug, designed to reverse opioid overdoses, is sometimes called a “save shot.”
The sheriff’s department recently kicked off a pilot program — at the direction of…
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