Going to the street to arm anti-heroin 'first responders' (Cincinati Enquirer)

Thursday Oct 13th, 2016

The third in a four-part series.

BALTIMORE - The streets are barren in this East Baltimore neighborhood, save for one active stretch that abuts a few boarded up, brick buildings.

This is a hub of open drug sales. A car pulls up, a hand comes out, there's a trade-off, a bag of something for cash.

A crushed box of the heroin overdose reversal drug naloxone is stuffed under a cracked cement step outside a building.

Someone overdosed here, says Nathan Fields, a Baltimore opioid overdose response prevention trainer. Someone tried to reverse the overdose with naloxone.

Just feet from the drug hand-offs and small social circles, the Behavioral Health System of Baltimore crew sets up a table and piles on naloxone kits.

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