It’s so much more dangerous out there than it’s ever been oh yeah no i’m not you know it doesn’t matter which way you know whatever he’s not here that’s it he’s dead sucks all right kevin i’ll talk to you soon all right brother just like a lost whole generation it hurts just hurts every day i hear about somebody that’s overdosed or multiple people that have
Overdosed i don’t care where you live there’s probably somebody in your community that’s using a heroin in the early part of my harm reduction work i was arrested on a couple of occasions i was put on trial for doing this work at the time we were labeled like enablers we didn’t have the right to do it that it wasn’t right for non-medical personnel to be
Administered knock in they made it sound like you know there was some guy down the corner and you know it wasn’t that it was like we’re down engaging this population and given them some tools that they can really use to help themselves the goal isn’t to stop people from using drugs it’s just to keep them alive so they can make a choice but that’s the address and
That’s the name no narcan was it history but this is where it happened and it may be four or five other people and they’re getting high that maybe and then we had a fatal of it is everyone familiar that we had a fatal this week um very sad how are you all right morris street cushman ave rivera beach boulevard and elliott rhodes who you guys decide how you want
To map it out this is a public health approach the community benefits from having the availability of knocking so you know somebody so you can just you know just say hey listen you know we do you need anything and then mention narcan after that so i work with stephen we go out we do the uh follow-ups and stuff like that to see if see how everybody’s doing what
I’m going to do is i’m going to leave you some naloxone so you must see a lot of people using right i’m i’m gonna leave you two i’m gonna leave you two like two packages of this stuff all right that way it’s good to have around it is good you know sometimes the first responder isn’t an officer it isn’t a firefighter it isn’t an emt you know it’s like could be a
Parent it could be another drug user and we just come by to check out see how you’re doing see if you want us to leave anything like um i can in case things happen again we can leave you like the uh spray i i really learned my lesson from that yeah but like you don’t want me to leave you something i can’t bro think about it i mean really have something very few
Public health initiatives brings a person that’s just on the doors of death brings them back keeps them here just for a little while longer you
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