LA County increased access to an opioid antidote 500% in 3 years. Is that why overdose deaths leveled off?

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Written By Grey Gardner

LAIST, LA - People in Los Angeles County now have access to naloxone — the medication that can reduce the effects of an opioid overdose — in more places than ever before, including schools, churches, libraries and jails.

And that may be a key reason why the number of drug overdose deaths in the county plateaued last year, after more than eight years of alarming year-over-year increases, county officials said.

It’s part of the Department of Public Health’s local harm-reduction strategy — an approach that’s gaining traction across the country. . . [SOURCE]

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