Opioid overdose deaths continue to break records in Cook County
The youngest overdose death in Cook County in 2022 was a 12-year-old boy from Chicago.
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The youngest overdose death in Cook County in 2022 was a 12-year-old boy from Chicago.
“The war on drugs, where we told people to just say no, failed us,” says state Rep. LaShawn Ford. “We know that people are going to use, and we have to support them.”
A proposal in Springfield would allow state-licensed drug injection sites to open across Illinois in an effort to reduce fatal overdoses amid a nationwide opioid crisis that has hit Cook County particularly hard.
The Sacramento City Unified School District is bringing Narcan into its schools in case any of its students has an overdose.