More than 1,100 people have died from opioid overdoses in San Diego County, and now doctors at Rady Children’s Hospital say they’re seeing a growing number of children overdosing on fentanyl.
Inside the free kits are two doses of naloxone or Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal medicine that helps save lives, and a pamphlet with a QR Code that shows an instructional video.
“With an overdose, time matters, seconds count. And so this allows family members to save family members and people in the home to save an individual while calling 911 and having emergency first responders come to help," Sheriff Kelly Martinez said. But some wonder if the plan this year to pass out 33,000 thousand kits of Narcan will continue to enable drug users.
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