​PHILADEPHIA — If it were possible to put a dollar value on human life, few would argue that $37.50 is too high.

Health commissioner Dr. Leana S. Wen gives every single city resident access to medication that stops an overdose in its tracks.

BALTIMORE — Volunteers and city health workers have set up a table here at the corner of East Baltimore and North Gay streets – near City Hall in an area filled with peep shows and strip clubs, known to residents as simply "The Block."

Nathan Fields, a community health educator for the city, has been coming to this area regularly for eight years, working with others from the health department to provide needle exchange, HIV testing and reproductive counseling. Today his team is providing passersby with naloxone, a lifesaving drug given to people overdosing on opioids like Oxycontin, Percocet or heroin.