House Bill 2 would establish an overdose prevention site program.
The Cook County medical examiner confirmed a record 2,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2022, as Chicago activists seek harm reduction.After losing a loved one to drug use, Vincent Lee knows all too well the price of opioid addiction.Lee's 50-year-old first cousin is among the scores of victims of accidental opioid overdoses involving fentanyl.The man's passing comes as the Cook County medical examiner confirmed a record 2,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.
That's why state Rep. LaShawn Ford joined a community of drug treatment advocates on the city's West Side to sound the alarm."If an individual overdoses, someone will save they life," Ford said. "This outreach team and the work we have done together, have trained over 20K out here, and given out twice as many doses of Narcan," said Lee Rush, with the West Side Heroin/Opioid Taskforce.
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