Supply Families At Risk With Opioid Antidote, Naloxone?

"Until the past few years, naloxone has been used mostly by paramedics, hospitals and drug-treatment programs. But as opioid deaths surge...government officials, nonprofit groups and community activists are pressing hard to get naloxone into the hands of police officers, firefighters and especially addicts’ family members and friends....Nearly two dozens states and the District have enacted legislation making it easier for opioid users’ friends and family to get the antidote. Community-based naloxone distribution programs have existed in the United States since 1996, providing the drug to more than 50,000 people and reversing more than 10,000 overdoses....But for years, those groups operated without much support from governments or society." Brady Dennis in The Washington Post.

Vermont Governor Shumlin's State Of The Union Address Devoted Entirely To Opiod Addiction, Up 770% Since 2000.

http://governor.vermont.gov/newsroom-state-of-state-speech-2013?wpisrc=nl_wonk