New program will help people recover from opioid withdrawal, connect with treatment
Among hundreds of 911 calls for opioid overdoses, Salem’s emergency responders often see the same people.
Sometimes they have to administer CPR to save someone who they gave naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug, the day before.
“We see these patients, and it’s just heartbreaking when you run on someone that you’ve taken to the hospital yesterday or the day before, and you’re at their house again for another overdose, and you’re talking to them again with…
