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of massachusetts opioid overdose pilot prevention program and dr. alexander wally is the medical director. >> initially this program was targeted towards high-risk injection drug users. we soon started to hear about parents going to needle exchanges. >> today the program distributes it to addicts, first responders, and learn to cope. that's a support group for parents of addicts. linda has been going to learn to cope meetings for the past nine years. >> nasal narcan, the overdose reversal antidote is available weekly at all ltc meetings. if you're in this room, you should have narcan. >> learn to cope has distributed hundreds of kits to its members who have managed to reverse at least nine overdoses. >> tingeing of the lips, fingernails bluish. anything like that also. >> okay. >> if you can't arouse them. >> it's ready to administer. >> okay, right. >> and it will go up one nostril, a half. >> it's one of those things that, you know, you can't

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