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>> so basically you'd come down here, shoot up and what, are you going to nod out? just sit down -- >> just sit down and hang out. a day like this, hang out under the underpass over there. >> not exactly la vida loca. >> no. as you can see, all the trash and yuck, it's dirty and gross. there's probably people who live down here. >> really? >> yeah, there's a lot of homeless people in greenfield. >> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january t of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam.
>> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> somebody's blue there. >> on the floor.
>> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one of these in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> repeat to me, you walk to the bathroom, there's somebody blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life.
>> just sit down and hang out. a day like this, hang out under the underpass over there. >> not exactly la vida loca. >> no. as you can see, all the trash and yuck, it's dirty and gross. there's probably people who live down here. >> really? >> yeah, there's a lot of homeless people in greenfield. >> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have
and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> you walk into the bathroom and there is somebody blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life. absolutely. and then kicking their ass [ laughter ] >> better now? life better now? >> absolutely. my kids have been home three years. you know, i no longer have to watch my back. you know, i live a pretty straight and narrow life, which, you know, people might say is
found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> somebody's blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life. absolutely. and then kicking their ass. [ laughter ] >> better now? life better now? >> absolutely. my kids have been home three years. you know, i no longer have to watch my back. you know, i live a pretty straight and narrow life, which, you know, people might say is
>> yeah, there's a lot of homeless people in greenfield. >> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have one in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> somebody's blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life. absolutely. and then kicking their ass [ laughter ] >> better now? life better now? >> absolutely. my kids have been home three
>> she seemed to be pretty unresponsible and we were noticing a blueing of the lips, lack of oxygen, so her breathing had become quite shallow. >> once someone is not breathing and not responding to any sort of stimulus. you give them breath and at that time i usually administerer this drug. >> watch what happens next. >> we gave her about 60 units of narkan. >> narcam can reverse an overdose from henderson and other drugs. such as oxycontin. >> another shot of narcam. >> and finally, liz begins to come to. >> liz? are you okay?
19-month-old daughter. >> i had felt so separated and just like dissociated from my daughter. because i felt like you know, basically like i wasn't good enough to take care of her. i can't finish school. i can't hold down a job. i can't -- you know, do any of this like normal stuff that every day people have absolutely no problem like, it's not a challenge for them. >> nyloxone gave liz a second chance. it also gave linda rolling a second chance. she remembers the day she found her son, steve, face-down in the front yard. >> my husband ran out and started rescue breathing and i ran in and got the narcam. right here. >> he was laying on his back, totally blue. so the narcam, as soon as he got into his nostrils, he started to
stir and wake up. and -- came to. >> thank god. >> narcam or naloxone is distributed as part of massachusetts overdose prevention program and dr. alexander wally is the medical director. >> we soon started to hear about parents going to needle exchange. >> today the program distributes naloxene to addicts, first responders and learn to cope, a support group for parents of addicts. >> linda has been going to learn to cope meetings for the past nine years. >> nasal naloxone, narcam is available to you. if you're in this room, you should have it. >> learn to cope has sfridistrid hundreds of the kits to its members, who has managed to row