MONTICELLO – Around a dozen people gathered at the Ethel B Crawford Library in Monticello on Wednesday to assemble life-saving harm reduction and naloxone kits. Several hundred kits were put together by Sullivan Allies Leading Together (SALT). A spokesperson for the group, Tracy Broyles, said the kits are an important service that is intended to save lives.
“These are simple kits. They just have naloxone, and educational information about the Good Samaritan law and a little bit of emergency contact for various services that someone might need in terms of supports,” she said. People who administer the drug are exempt from legal harm because their action will fall under the Good Samaritan law.
Program coordinator for S.A.L.T., Louis Ocasio, says you don’t have to be a typical drug addict to be susceptible to an overdose.
“Family members that go visit their grandmother or their mother and find them unconscious because they accidentally took more than what they needed. So we’re letting people know that this is not just for active drug users, but it is for everybody who consumes any type of pain medication.”
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