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.